Strategy

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Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 5 Preface to the Second Edition......Page 9 Preface......Page 10 PART I. STRATEGY FROM FIFTH CENTURY B.C. TO TWENTITH CENTURY A.D.......Page 13 Chapter I. History as Practical Experience......Page 14 Chapter II. Greek Wars - Epaminondas, Philip, and Alexander......Page 16 Chapter III. Roman Wars - Hannibal, Scipio, and Caesar......Page 25 Chapter IV. Byzantine Wars - Belisarius and Narses......Page 32 Chapter V. Medieval Wars......Page 40 Chapter VI. The Seventeen Century - Gustavus, Cromwell, Turenne......Page 44 Chapter VII. The Eighteen Century - Marlborough and Frederick......Page 50 Chapter VIII. The French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte......Page 60 Chapter IX. 1854-1914......Page 75 Chapter X. Conclusions from Twenty-Five Centuries......Page 85 PART II. STRATEGY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR......Page 87 Chapter XI. The Plans and Their Issue in the Western Theater, 1914......Page 88 Chapter XII. The North-Eastern Theater......Page 95 Chapter XIII. The South-Eastern Theater or Mediterranean Theater......Page 100 Chapter XIV. The Strategy of 1918......Page 106 PART III. STRATEGY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR......Page 115 Chapter XV. Hitler's Strategy......Page 116 Chapter XVI. Hitler's Run of Victory......Page 124 Chapter XVII. Hitler's Decline......Page 132 Chapter XVIII. Hitler's Fall......Page 152 PART IV. FUNDAMENTALS OF STRATEGY AND GRAND STRATEGY......Page 171 Chapter XIX. The Theory of Strategy......Page 172 Chapter XX. The Concentrated Essence of Strategy and Tactics......Page 180 Chapter XXI. National Object and Military Aim......Page 182 Chapter XXII. Grand Strategy......Page 189 Chapter XXIII. Guerilla War......Page 193 Appendix I. The Strategy of Indirect Approach in the North African Campaign, 1940-42......Page 198 Appendix II. Arab-Israel War, 1948-49......Page 206 Index of Deductions......Page 216 Index......Page 218