War in the Modern World

"A brilliant survey of the history of warfare... the best yet produced anywhere."--B. H. Lidell-HartFrom the Renaissance to the Cold War, the definitive survey of the social, political, military, and technological aspects of modern warfare returns to print in a new paperback edition. Topics include land and sea warfare from the Renaissance to the neoclassical age; the Anglo-American military tradition; the French Revolution and Napoleon; the Industrial Revolution and war; and the First and Second World Wars and their aftermath.

Theodore Ropp is a professor of history emeritus at Duke University. He is the author of The Development of a Modern Navy: French Naval Policy, 1871-1904 and History and War. He was awarded the 1991 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for his contributions to the field of military history. Alex Roland is chair of the History Department at Duke University and the author of Underwater Warfare in the Age of Sail, Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1915-1958, and (with Richard Preston and Sydney Wise) Men in Arms: A History of Warfare and Its Interrelationships with Western Society.

Preface

ix

Introduction to the Johns Hopkins Edition

3

(8)

Alex Roland

Introduction to the Original Edition

11

(8)

THE AGE OF THE GREAT CAPTAINS

Land Warfare from the Renaissance to the Neoclassical Age (1415--1789)

19

(41)

New Techniques and Types of Military Organization

19

(6)

The Wars for Italy and the Rise of Spain (1494--1559)

25

(4)

The Army of the Spanish Hapsburgs

29

(8)

Spain's Decline (1559--1659)

37

(3)

The Age of Louis XIV (1643--1715)

40

(4)

The Age of Frederick the Great: Neoclassical Warfare

44

(9)

The Common Soldier in the Neoclassical Age

53

(7)

Naval Warfare from the Renaissance to the Neoclassical Age (1417--1789)

60

(16)

The Command of the Sea

60

(2)

Portuguese and Spanish Sea Power

62

(4)

The Rise of English Sea Power

66

(4)

Navies in the Neoclassical Age

70

(6)

The Anglo-American Military Tradition

76

(22)

The Weakness of the Standing Army

76

(4)

Problems of Imperial Defense

80

(6)

The Break with Britain

86

(2)

The Continental Army and Navy

88

(5)

The British in the American Revolution

93

(5)

The French Revolution and Napoleon

98

(45)

French Military Reformers

98

(4)

The Revolution

102

(5)

The Organizer of Victory

107

(10)

The Napoleonic Empire

117

(7)

The Opposition to Napoleon: The Peninsula

124

(8)

The Opposition to Napoleon in Eastern Europe

132

(11)

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAR

The First Half of the Nineteenth Century (1815--1853)

143

(18)

Britain and the Long Peace

143

(4)

Austria, Russia, and France

147

(5)

Prussia

152

(9)

The Wars of the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1854--1871)

161

(34)

The New Weapons of the Industrial Revolution

161

(3)

The Crimean and Italian Wars

164

(5)

The Rise of Germany

169

(6)

The American Civil War: Men and Tactics

175

(9)

The American Civil War: Strategy

184

(11)

The Years of Uneasy Peace (1871--1914)

195

(44)

Military Organization: The Spread of Prussian Doctrine

195

(5)

Mobilization and Intellectual Preparation of the Mass Army

200

(6)

The Race for Colonies and Sea Power

206

(9)

Land Tactics with the New Fire Weapons

215

(7)

The War Plans of the Continental Powers

222

(8)

British Participation in a Continental War

230

(9)

THE AGE OF VIOLENCE

The First World War

239

(36)

The Opening Battles (1914)

239

(6)

Deadlock in the West (1915--1916)

245

(6)

German Victory in the East (1915--1916)

251

(6)

The United States and the War (1917)

257

(4)

Years of Decision (1917--1918)

261

(14)

The Long Armistice (1919--1939)

275

(39)

The Peace Settlements

275

(10)

The Totalitarian State: Bolshevik Russia

285

(5)

Italian Fascism and the Theories of Giulio Douhet

290

(4)

The Military Recovery of Germany

294

(9)

The Three Democracies

303

(11)

The Second World War

314

(79)

The Opening Battles

314

(7)

Britain, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic

321

(12)

The Russo-German War

333

(12)

Allied Deployment: Decision in Western Europe

345

(14)

The East Asian and Pacific Wars: The Japanese Raid

359

(12)

The Allied Counterattack in the Pacific

371

(11)

The War for East Asia

382

(11)

Epilogue

393

(12)

Index

405

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