Weigley, Russell Frank.
The American way of war : a history of United States military strategy and policy / History of United States military strategy and policy Russell F. Weigley. - Indiana University Press paperback ed. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1977, �1973. - xxiii, 584 pages : maps ; 23 cm. - The Wars of the United States. . - Wars of the United States (Indiana University Press) .
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.
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.
025328029X 9780253280299
77074434
Strategic culture--United States.
Strategy.
Strat�egie.
Military policy.
Strategic culture.
Strategy.
United States--Military policy.
United States--History, Military.
�Etats-Unis--Politique militaire.
�Etats-Unis--Histoire militaire.
United States.
Military history.
UA23 / .W3695 1977
355.4/3/00973
The American way of war : a history of United States military strategy and policy / History of United States military strategy and policy Russell F. Weigley. - Indiana University Press paperback ed. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1977, �1973. - xxiii, 584 pages : maps ; 23 cm. - The Wars of the United States. . - Wars of the United States (Indiana University Press) .
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.
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.
025328029X 9780253280299
77074434
Strategic culture--United States.
Strategy.
Strat�egie.
Military policy.
Strategic culture.
Strategy.
United States--Military policy.
United States--History, Military.
�Etats-Unis--Politique militaire.
�Etats-Unis--Histoire militaire.
United States.
Military history.
UA23 / .W3695 1977
355.4/3/00973