The American way of war: a history of United States military strategy and policy

Reprint of the ed. published by Macmillan, New York, in series: The Wars of the United States.

  • OCLC #: 3016613
  • ISBN #:
    • 025328029X
    • 9780253280299
  • Call #: UA23.W3695 1977
  • Personal Collection:
    • The Henry J. Reilly Memorial Library Collection
  • Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1977, ©1973.
  • Edition:
    • Indiana University Press paperback ed.
  • Series Statement:
    • The Wars of the United States.
  • Physical Description: xxiii, 584 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
  • General Notes:
    • Reprint of the ed. published by Macmillan, New York, in series: The Wars of the United States.
  • Contents:
    • 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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