The New Makers of Modern Strategy : From the Ancient World to the Digital Age

The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world The New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who's who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from antiquity to today, surveying both classical and current themes of strategy while devoting greater attention to the Cold War and post-9/11 eras. The contributors evaluate the timeless requirements of effective strategy while tracing the revolutionary changes that challenge the makers of strategy in the contemporary world. Amid intensifying global disorder, the study of strategy and its history has never been more relevant. The New Makers of Modern Strategy draws vital lessons from history's most influential strategists, from Thucydides and Sun Zi to Clausewitz, Napoleon, Churchill, Mao, Ben-Gurion, Andrew Marshall, Xi Jinping, and Qassem Soleimani. With contributions by Dmitry Adamsky, John Bew, Tami Davis Biddle, Hal Brands, Antulio J. Echevarria II, Elizabeth Economy, Charles Edel, Eric S. Edelman, Andrew Ehrhardt, Lawrence Freedman, John Lewis Gaddis, Francis J. Gavin, Christopher J. Griffin, Ahmed S. Hashim, Eric Helleiner, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Seth G. Jones, Robert Kagan, Jonathan Kirshner, Matthew Kroenig, James Lacey, Guy Laron, Michael V. Leggiere, Margaret MacMillan, Tanvi Madan, Thomas G. Mahnken, Carter Malkasian, Daniel Marston, John H. Maurer, Walter Russell Mead, Michael Cotey Morgan, Mark Moyar, Williamson Murray, S.C.M. Paine, Sergey Radchenko, Iskander Rehman, Thomas Rid, Joshua Rovner, Priya Satia, Kori Schake, Matt J. Schumann, Brendan Simms, Jason K. Stearns, Hew Strachan, Sue Mi Terry, and Toshi Yoshihara. Contents Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction: The Indispensable Art: Three Generations of Makers of Modern Strategy Part One Foundations and Founders 1 Strategy: The History of an Idea 2 Thucydides, Polybius, and the Legacies of the Ancient World 3 Sun Zi and the Search for a Timeless Logic of Strategy 4 Machiavelli and the Naissance of Modern Strategy 5 The Elusive Meaning and Enduring Relevance of Clausewitz 6 Jomini, Modern War, and Strategy: The Triumph of the Essential 7 Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Strategy of Sea Power 8 Kant, Paine, and Strategies of Liberal Transformation 9 Alexander Hamilton and the Financial Sinews of Strategy 10 Economic Foundations of Strategy: Beyond Smith, Hamilton, and List Part Two Strategy in an Age of Great-Power Rivalry 11 Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin: French Strategies of Equilibrium in the Seventeenth Century 12 Generational Competition in a Multipolar World: William III and André-Hercule de Fleury 13 Napoleon and the Strategy of the Single Point 14 John Quincy Adams and the Challenges of a Democratic Strategy 15 Strategic Excellence: Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederacy 16 Francis Lieber, the Laws of War, and the Origins of the Liberal International Order 17 Japan Caught between Maritime and Continental Imperialism 18 Strategies of Anti-Imperial Resistance: Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, and Fanon Part Three Strategy in an Age of Global War 19 Strategy, War Plans, and the First World War 20 The Strategy of Decisive War versus the Strategy of Attrition 21 Strategy and Total War 22 Woodrow Wilson and the Rise of Modern American Grand Strategy 23 Democratic Leaders and Strategies of Coalition Warfare: Churchill and Roosevelt in World War II 24 The Hidden Hand of History: Toynbee and the Search for World Order 25 Strategies of Geopolitical Revolution: Hitler and Stalin 26 Mao Zedong and Strategies of Nested War Part Four Strategy in a Bipolar Era 27 Nuclear Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Great Divergence 28 The Elusive Nature of Nuclear Strategy 29 Limited War in the Nuclear Age: American Strategy in Korea 30 Ben-Gurion, Nasser, and Strategy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict 31 Nehru and the Strategy of Non-Alignment 32 Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara: Theory Over History and Expertise 33 Strategies of Détente and Competition: Brezhnev and Moscow’s Cold War 34 Arms Competition, Arms Control, and Strategies of Peacetime Competition from Fisher to Reagan Part Five Strategy in the Post-Cold War World 35 Dilemmas of Dominance: American Strategy from George H.W. Bush to Barack Obama 36 The Two Marshals: Nikolai Ogarkov, Andrew Marshall, and the Revolution in Military Affairs 37 Strategies of Counterinsurgency and Counter-Terrorism after 9/11 38 Strategies of Jihad: From the Prophet Muhammad to Contemporary Times 39 Xi Jinping and the Strategy of China’s Restoration 40 Soleimani, Gerasimov, and Strategies of Irregular Warfare 41 The Strength of Weakness: The Kim Dynasty and North Korea’s Strategy for Survival 42 Strategies of Persistent Conflict: Kabila and the Congo Wars 43 Strategy and Grand Strategy in New Domains 44 A Revolution in Intelligence 45 Grammar, Logic, and Grand Strategy Index