The Art of War in the Western World

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ISBN: 9780252069666 | 0252069668
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Copyright: 12/19/2000

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The magnum opus of one of America's most respected military historians, The Art of War in the Western World has earned its place as the standard work on how the three major operational components of war -- tactics, logistics, and strategy -- have evolved and changed over time. This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of military history, from infantry combat in ancient Greece through the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the Thirty Years' War and from the Napoleonic campaigns through World War II, which Jones sees as the culmination of modern warfare, to the Israeli-Egyptian War of 1973.

Introduction

xvii

Ancient Warfare

(91)

Tactics

(1)

Hand-to-Hand Combat on Foot

(4)

Combat on Foot with Missiles

(2)

Mounted Combat

(2)

Fortification and Siegecraft

(4)

Greek Heavy Infantry against Persian Light Infantry and Cavalry

(5)

Greek Light Infantry in Combat with Greek Heavy Infantry

(2)

Alexander's Conquests with a Complete Combined-Arms Army

(5)

The Roman Art of War

(2)

The Romans in Confrontation with the Alexandrian System of Pyrrhus and Hannibal

(4)

The Roman Victories with the Alexandrian System

(2)

The Roman Legion Perfected

(1)

The Romans against the Mounted Parthians

(4)

Summary of the Capabilities of the Four Weapon Systems

(6)

Logistics

(1)

The Provision of Soldiers and Supplies

(4)

Logistics Illustrated by Alexander's Persian Campaign

(5)

Strategy

(1)

Persisting and Raiding Strategies Distinguished

(3)

Alexander's Campaign: An Exemplification of Combat, Logistic, and Persisting Strategies

(5)

Alexander's Encounter with a Raiding Strategy

(3)

Military Victories without Political Support: Hannibal's Experience with the Fabian Strategy

(5)

A Rare Instance of the Use of Interior Lines of Operations in Ancient Times

(2)

Caesar's Strategy in the Conquest of Gaul

(3)

Caesar's Ilerda Campaign: An Unusual Occurrence of the Turning Movement

(5)

Caesar's Campaign against Pompey

(12)

Summary of Warfare on Land

(5)

Naval Warfare

(6)

The Diversity of the Medieval Ways of War, 200--1200

(56)

The Dissolution of the Roman Empire

(1)

Changes in Military Organization and Tactical Emphasis

(2)

Least Effort Exemplified: Byzantine Tactics and Strategy

(7)

The Stirrup's Enhancement of the Effectiveness of Cavalry

102

(2)

Western Europe's Struggle against Raiders

104

(5)

William's Combined-Arms Army in the Conquest of England

109

(5)

Attack and Defense of Fortifications

114

(4)

Medieval Tactics

118

(5)

Medieval Strategy: The Evesham and Bouvines Campaigns

123

(4)

Examples of an Offensive Persisting Strategy against Raiders

127

(7)

Combined-Arms Combat in the Crusades

134

(8)

Jenghiz Khan and Mongol Warfare

142

(2)

Summary of Medieval Tactics and Strategy

144

(4)

The Emergence of a New Combined-Arms Tactical Synthesis, 1200--1600

148

(66)

The French Version of Medieval Warfare

148

(2)

Changes in Logistics

150

(1)

Changes in Weapons

151

(3)

Persisting Strategy and the Completion of the English Conquest of Wales

154

(2)

The English Combined-Arms Tactical System in Scotland

156

(5)

The Beginning of the Hundred Years' War and the Crecy Campaign

161

(4)

The Hundred Years' War: English Raids and French Persisting Strategy

165

(4)

English Persisting Strategy in the Last Phase of the Hundred Years' War

169

(4)

The Experience of the English Tactical System in Spain

173

(1)

The Wagenburg

174

(1)

The Swiss Heavy Infantry

175

(3)

The Least Effort Warfare of the Italian Condottieri

178

(4)

Regional Tactical Systems in Conflict: The French Invasion of Italy

182

(4)

The Search for a Combined-Arms Synthesis: Italian Battles, 1512-25

186

(4)

The Spanish Combined-Arms Tactics

190

(4)

The New Fortifications

194

(1)

Another Influence of Technology on Tactics

195

(4)

The Manpower System in 1600

199

(3)

Sixteenth-Century Battles, Campaigns, and Strategy

202

(7)

Revolution in Naval Tactics and Logistics

209

(5)

The New Tactical Synthesis in Transition, 1600--1700

214

(53)

The Logistics of the Thirty Years' War

214

(7)

Gustavus Adolphus's Development of the Dutch Tactical System

221

(2)

Gustavus's Persisting Strategy and Employment of Distraction

223

(9)

Gustavus's Exploitation of the Triumph of His Linear System at Brietenfeld

232

(5)

Gustavus against Wallenstein: Logistic and Combat Strategies

237

(6)

The Impact of Gustavus's Tactics

243

(9)

The Logistics of the Late Seventeenth Century

252

(4)

Representative Late Seventeenth-Century Campaigns and Battles

256

(7)

The Development of Missile Warfare at Sea

263

(4)

The Primacy of the Line of Bayoneted Muskets, 1700--1791

267

(53)

The Bayonet, the Flintlock, and Further Changes in Tactics

267

(5)

Eighteenth-Century Logistics

272

(2)

The Strategy and Tactics of Marlborough's Campaigns

274

(9)

Persisting Strategy in North Italy

283

(6)

The Evolution of the Linear System

289

(5)

Tactics and Strategy as Exemplified in the Silesian Wars of Frederick the Great

294

(3)

The Seven Years' War: Tactics and Strategy in Defense against the Logistic Effects of a Persisting Strategy

297

(11)

Changes in Attrition in Relation to the Composition of Armies

308

(1)

Significant Developments in French Military Thought

309

(8)

Warfare in the Western Hemisphere

317

(1)

Warfare at Sea

318

(2)

Tactical and Strategic Transformation in the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1791--1815

320

(67)

The Tactics and Strategy of the Opening Campaigns in the North

320

(10)

The Advent of General Bonaparte

330

(7)

The Strategic Turning Movement of the Marengo Campaign

337

(5)

Napoleonic Operations on a Larger Scale: The Strategic Turning Movement of Ulm and Distraction and Concentration at Austerlitz

342

(5)

Some Characteristics of Napoleon's Campaigns

347

(4)

The Augmented Significance of Numerical Superiority

351

(2)

Some Later Napoleonic Campaigns

353

(5)

Operations in Spain: The French Encounter the Raiding Strategy of Guerrilla Warfare

358

(9)

The Foundations of the French Conquests

367

(5)

The Military Legacy of the Napoleonic Era

372

(5)

The Tactics of Warfare at Sea

377

(4)

The Strategy of Warfare at Sea

381

(6)

Technological Change and Doctrinal Stability, 1815--1914

387

(47)

The Continuation of the Napoleonic Tradition in Radetzky's Victories

387

(3)

The Midcentury's New Infantry Weapons

390

(2)

The Prussian Staff and Manpower System

392

(4)

The New Prussian Army in Action against Austria

396

(2)

Decisive Turning Movements in the Franco-Prussian War

398

(9)

A Summary of the Tactics, Logistics, and Strategy of the Franco-Prussian War

407

(2)

The Strategy of the American Civil War

409

(9)

Two Instances of Combating the Raiding Strategy of Guerrilla Warfare

418

(1)

European Weapons, Armies, and Doctrine on the Eve of World War I

419

(4)

The Revolution in Naval Materiel and its Use in the Russo-Japanese War

423

(11)

The Apogee of the Defense: World War I, 1914--18

434

(55)

The German Concentration on Interior Lines and Effort to Turn the French

434

(5)

The Tactical, Logistical, and Strategic Conditions of the War

439

(2)

The German Exploitation of Interior Lines and a Turning Movement to Defeat the Russians

441

(2)

The Opening Naval Campaigns

443

(3)

Allied Naval Predominance Confirmed: The Battle of Jutland

446

(1)

The Submarine as a Commerce Raider

447

(2)

The Dominance of Artillery in the Siege Warfare on Land

449

(1)

The Development and Utility of Air Forces

450

(6)

The Tactics of Trench Warfare

456

(3)

The War in 1915 and 1916

459

(4)

The Search for a Technological Solution to the Tactical Deadlock

463

(4)

The German Quest for Victory through a Logistic Strategy Using Submarines

467

(1)

The New German Method of Defense

467

(5)

The New German Doctrine for Attack

472

(3)

The Campaigns of 1918 on the Western Front

475

(5)

A Turning Movement through Superior Mobility: The Megiddo Campaign

480

(3)

Summary of the Changes in Weapons, Tactics, and Logistics

483

(6)

Prelude to Renewed Conflict, 1919--39

489

(19)

The Full Development of Four New Weapon Systems

489

(8)

The French in Morocco: New Weapons and Old Strategy

497

(4)

Tactical and Strategic Use of Aircraft

501

(1)

A Russian Cannae

501

(1)

The Navies' Response to the New Weapons

502

(2)

Doctrinal Diversity

504

(4)

The Climax of Modern Warfare: World War II, 1939--45

508

(88)

The German Victory over Poland

508

(2)

The French and German Armies

510

(8)

French and German Plans

518

(2)

The New German Offensive Plan

520

(3)

The German Breakthrough in May 1940

523

(11)

The Causes of the German Breakthrough

534

(1)

The German Turning Movement

535

(4)

The German Victory: Napoleonic Warfare with Four Weapon Systems

539

(5)

Air Power in a Decisive Role: The Battle of Britain

544

(4)

The Strategic and Tactical Conditions of the Russo-German War

548

(4)

The Strategic Envelopments of the 1941 Campaign in Russia

552

(5)

The Debacle of the German Logistic Strategy of 1942 and the Conclusion of the Russo-German War

557

(2)

Distraction, Concentration, and Turning Movement Again: The Landing and Campaign in Normandy

559

(4)

The British Inauguration of Mounted Warfare in North Africa and the Defeat of the Italians

563

(2)

The Warfare of the Mounted British and German Armies

565

(4)

New and Improved Weapons

569

(7)

The Interaction of Technology with Strategy

576

(2)

Strategic Bombing

578

(5)

Combat at Sea with Two Types of Capital Ships

583

(6)

The German Submarine Campaign

589

(7)

After the World Wars: Consolidation and Technological Change, 1945--85

596

(17)

Changes in Weapons

596

(5)

The All-Mounted Army

601

(1)

The Israeli-Egyptian War of 1973

602

(7)

The Tactical Mixture of Old and New

609

(4)

Continuity and Change

613

(104)

Sea and Air Warfare

613

(1)

Chronological Survey

613

(3)

Recapitulation of the Characteristics of Naval Warfare

616

(3)

Summary of the Attributes of Aircraft in Warfare

619

(3)

Tactics

622

(1)

Chronological Summary

622

(7)

Technology and the Four Basic Weapon Systems

629

(1)

The Economics of Force Composition

630

(4)

The Role of Articulation and Offensive Troops in Concentrating against Weakness

634

(4)

Battles and Casualties

638

(5)

Logistics

643

(1)

Chronological Overview

643

(2)

Alternative Manpower Systems

645

(3)

Strategy

648

(1)

Chronological Summary

648

(14)

The Classifications of Military Strategy

662

(4)

The Influence of the Ratio of Force to Space

666

(1)

The Supremacy of Retreat Over Pursuit

667

(1)

Concentration against Weakness, Distraction, and the Principles of War

668

(2)

Compelling the Enemy to Fight, Turning Movements, and Concentration in Space and Time

670

(5)

The Nature and Objectives of a Raiding Strategy

675

(4)

Guerrilla Warfare as an Application of Raiding Strategy

679

(2)

Defense and Offense against Guerrilla Warfare

681

(9)

Summary of Alternatives Confronting Commanders

690

(14)

Continuity and Change

704

(13)

Notes

717

(8)

Index

725

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