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The American way of war : a history of United States military strategy and policy / Russell F. Weigley.
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Indiana University Press paperback edition.
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Bloomington :: Indiana University Press,
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1977.
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xxiii, 584 pages : maps ; 23 cm
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Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Reprint of the ed. published by Macmillan, New York, in series: The Wars of the United States.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-561) and index.
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Monograph
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025328029X 9780253280299;
Abstract:
Strategy. PART ONE: Waging war with limited resource, 1775-1815. -- A strategy of attrition: George Washington -- A strategy of partisan war: Nathan Greene -- The Federalists and Jeffersonians. -- PART TWO: Young America as a military power, 1815-1890.
-- The age of Winfield Scott -- The founding of American Strategic Studies: Dennis Hart Mahan and Henry Wager Halleck -- Napoleonic strategy: R.E. Lee and the Confederacy -- A strategy of annihilation: U.S. Grant and the Union -- Annihilation of a people: the Indian fighters. -- PART THREE: Introduction to world power, 1890-1941. -- A strategy of sea power and empire: Stephen B. Luce and Alfred Thayer Mahan -- Strategy and the Great War of 1914-1918 -- A strategy of air power: Billy Mitchell -- A strategy for Pacific Ocean War: Naval strategists of the 1920s and 1930s. -- PART FOUR: American strategy in global triumph, 1941-1945. -- The strategic tradition of A.T. Mahan: Strategists of the Pacific War -- The strategic tradition of U.S. Grant: Strategists of the European War -- PART FIVE: American strategy in perplexity, 1945-. -- The atomic revolution -- Old strategies revisited: Douglas MacArthur and George C. Marshall in the Korean War -- Strategies of deterrence and of action: the strategy of intellectuals -- Strategies of action attempted: To the Vietnam War.
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