영문목차
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS=5
MAP LIST=9
CHRONOLOGY=10
INTRODUCTION:STUDYING WAR=13
1. CHINESE MILITARY THOUGHT
The earliest known writings on war;the epic poems;China from c. 400 BC;Chinese military texts;Sun Tzu and Ta'i Kung;the era of the warring states;Lao Tzu's advice=19
2. FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES
Ancient military-historical writings;military works of Aeneas the Tactician;Asclepiodotus;Onasander, Frontinus and Vegetius;the military treatises of the Byzantine Empire;medieval works on war=37
3. FROM 1500 TO 1763
Machiavelli;Military thought to the second half of the eighteenth century;Montecuccoli, Vauban, Folard, Puysegur, de Saxe, Frederick the Great=67
4. GUIBERT TO CLAUSEWITZ
The end of the Seven Years War;Guibert and his Essai tactique gendrale;Maizeroy, von Buelow and the invention of modern strategy;Berenhorst and the German Romantic school;Clausewitz's On War=95
5. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
The discovery of the'otherness' of history;Du Picq and the qualities of the soldier;Helmut von Moltke and the technological revolution in warfare;the road to the Schlieffen Plan=121
6. NAVAL WARFARE
The paucity of works on naval warfare before 1880;Mahan's Influence of Seapower upon History as the most important work on the subject ever written;Julian Corbett's adaptation of Clausewitzian ideas to naval warfare=145
7. THE INTERWAR PERIOD
Military-technological developments;Douhet on air warfare;Fuller and Liddell Harr on armoured warfare;Ludendorff and the road to total war=161
8. FROM 1945 TO THE PRESENT
The collapse of large-scale interstate war;the rise of nuclear strategy and deterrence;Schellings's Arms and Influence;guerrilla activity and terrorism from Lawrence to Mao to Giap=185
SOME LEADING MILITARY THINKERS=214
FURTHER READING=218
INDEX=220
PICTURE CREDITS=224
1. WARRING STATES TO THE UNIFICATION OF CHINA=20
IMPERIAL CHINA 300 BC=20
IMPERIAL CHINA 250 BC=21
IMPERIAL CHINA 220 BC=21
2. SPIES=32
3. BATTLE OF CHAERONEIA=44
4. LIVING OFF THE LAND:PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS AND BATTLES=60
5. BYZANTINE EMPIRE 562-1430=64
6. MACHIAVELLI'S ITALY C. 1500=74
7. THE SPANISH ROAD-THE HABSBURG EMPIRE C. 1600=79
8. PRUSSIA 1713-86=96
9. WAR ZONES OF SEVEN YEARS WAR 1756-63=98
10. MANOEUVRE ON ULM, SEPTEMBER 1805=106
11. BATTLE OF LEUTHEN 1757=112
12. ROMAN LEGION BATTLE ORDER=128
13. SIZE OF ARMIES=132
14. THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN 1914=142
15. LAND VERSUS MARITIME POWER C. 1812=149
16. DOUHET'S THEORY, GUERNICA=166
17. SCHWEINFURT BOMBING RESULTS=168
18. LIDDELL HART'S EXPANDING TORRENT=176
19. SOVIET AND AMERICAN BLOCS 1957-67=194
20. AP BAC, VIETNAM=206
21. WAR BY TELEVISION=212