Contributor
Earle, Edward Mead, 1894-1954.
Imprint:Princeton : Princeton university press, c1943.
Descriptionxi, 553 p. : ill. (maps) plans, diagrs. ; 24 cm.
Note:Fourth printing, 1952.
Note:SECTION I. THE ORIGINS OF MODERN WAR: FROM THE 16TH TO THE 18TH CENTURY: 1. Machiavelli: the renaissance of the art of war / Felix Gilbert -- 2. Vauban: the impact of science on war / enry Guerlac -- 3. Frederick the Great, Guilbert, Bülow: drom dynastic to national war / R.R. Palmer -- SECTION II. THE CLASSICS OF THE 19TH CENTURY: INTERPRETERS OF NAPOLEON: 4. Jomini / Crane Brinton, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert -- 5. Clausewitz / H. Rothfels -- SECTION III. FROM THE 19TH CENTURY TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR: 6. Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List: the economic foundations of military power / Edward Mead Earle -- 7. Engels and Marx: military concepts of the social revolutionaries / Sigmund Neumann -- 8. Moltke and Schlieffen: the Prussian-German school / Hajo Holborn -- 9. Du Picq and Foch: the French school / Stefan T. Possony, Etienne Mantoux -- 10. Bugeaud, Galliéni, Lyautey: the development of French colonial warfare / Jean Gottmann -- 11. Delbrück: the military historian / Gordon A. Craig -- SECTION IV. FROM THE FIRST TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR: 12. Churchill, Lloyd George, Clemenceau: the emergence of the civilian / Harvey A. DeWeerd -- 13. Ludendorff: the German concept of total war / Hans Speier -- 14. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin: Soviet concepts of war / Edward Mead Earle -- 15. Maginot and Liddell Hart: the doctrine of defense / Irving M. Gibson -- 16. Haushofer: the geopoliticians / Derwent Whittlesey -- SECTION V. SEA AND AIR WAR: 17. Mahan: evangelist of sea power / Margaret Tuttle Sprout -- 18. Continental doctrines of sea power / Theodore Ropp -- 19. Japanese naval strategy / Alexander Kiralfy-- 20. Douhet, Mitchell, Seversky: theories of air warfare / Edward Warner -- Epilogue: The Nazi concept of war / Edward Mead Earle.
Bibliography Note:"Bibliographical notes": p. [521]-547.
