Strategic logic and political rationality : essays in honor of Michael I. Handel /

"One of three volumes published by Frank Cass in honor of the teaching and scholarship of the late Michael I. Handel, this book represents the state of the art of contemporary scholarship on the universal logic of strategy, and the ability of liberal-democratic governments to address that logic...

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Other Authors: Walling, Karl-Friedrich, 1957- (Editor), Handel, Michael I., Lee, Bradford A. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2003.
Portland, Oregon : 2003
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Bradford A. Lee and Karl F. Walling
  • 1. Strategy in War and Sports: A Comparison / David E. Kaiser
  • 2. What is a Military Lesson? / William C. Fuller, Jr.
  • 3. Why the Weak Win: Strong Powers, Weak Powers, and the Logic of Strategy / Thomas G. Mahnken
  • 4. Attrition in Modern and Post-Modern War / Avi Kober
  • 5. Sunzi Bingfa as History and Theory / Andrew Meyer and Andrew Wilson
  • 6. Policy, Strategy, and Operations / Milan Vego
  • 7. Thucydides on Democratic Politics and Civil-Military Relations / Karl F. Walling
  • 8. Winning without Fighting: British Grand Strategy and its Application to the United States, 1815-65 / Andrew Lambert
  • 9. British Strategy and Winning the Great War / David French
  • 10. The Architecture and Soft Spots of Israeli Grand Strategy / Gil Merom
  • 11. Winning the War but Losing the Peace? The United States and the Strategic Issues of War Termination / Bradford A. Lee.
  • 12. Clausewitz and the Two Contemporary Military Revolutions: RMA and RAM / James C. Kurth.