Grand strategy and military alliances
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Grand strategy and military alliances
Cambridge University Press, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Alliances have shaped grand strategy and warfare since the dawn of civilization. Indeed, it is doubtful that the United States of America would have gained its independence without its Revolutionary War alliance with France. Such alliances may prove even more important to international security in the twenty-first century. Economic and financial difficulties alone will ensure that policy makers attempt to spread the burden of securing vital interests onto other nations through alliances, both formal organizations such as NATO and informal alliances of convenience as developed to wage the Gulf War in 1991. A team of leading historians examine the problems inherent in alliance politics and relationships in the framework of grand strategy through the lens of history. Aimed at not just the military aspects of alliances, the book uncovers the myriad factors that have made such coalitions succeed or fail in the past.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: grand strategy and alliances Peter R. Mansoor and Williamson Murray
- Part I. Maritime Powers and the Continental Commitment: 2. Grand strategy, alliances, and the Anglo-American way of war Williamson Murray
- 3. The Anglo-Prussian alliance and the Seven Years War Dennis Showalter
- 4. Preserved by friend and foe alike: the sixth coalition against revolutionary France Richard Hart Sinnreich
- 5. The Franco-British military alliance during World War I Paul Harris
- 6. The grand alliance in World War II Mark A. Stoler
- 7. Adapt and survive: NATO in the Cold War Ingo Trauschweizer
- Part II. The Political and Military Challenges of Coalition Warfare: 8. The Peloponnesian War and Sparta's strategic alliances Victor Davis Hanson and David L. Berkey
- 9. The Anglo-Burgundian alliance and grand strategy in the Hundred Years War Clifford J. Rogers
- 10. The Franco-American alliance during the War for Independence Mark Grimsley
- 11. The alliance that wasn't: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I Marcus Jones
- 12. The Axis Williamson Murray
- 13. The Gulf War, 1990-91: a coalition of convenience in a changing world Richard Swain
- 14. Conclusion: alliances and coalitions in the twenty-first century Peter R. Mansoor
- Index.
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