The Patterns of War Since the Eighteenth Century

Larry H. Addington

Description

A concise history of the evolution of warfare from the American Revolution to Operation Desert Storm.

"This important work . . . synthesizes the evolution of warfare from 1775 to the present." —Military Review

A thorough revision of a highly successful text, this new edition provides a comprehensive picture of the evolution of modern warfare.

From reviews of the first edition:

"There is nothing else in print that tells so much so concisely about how war has been conducted since the days of Gen. George Washington." —Russell F. Weigley

"A superior synthesis. Well written, nicely organized, remarkably comprehensive, and laced with facts." —Military Affairs

Sujets

• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Military history
• General officer
• Military
• General
• Combat
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 22 octobre 1994
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253111098
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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THE
Patterns of WAR
since the
Eighteenth Century
THE
Patterns of WAR
since the
Eighteenth Century
SECOND EDITION
Larry H. Addington
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Addington, Larry H.
The patterns of war since the eighteenth century / Larry H. Addington.-2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-253-30132-7 (alk. paper).-ISBN 0-253-20860-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Military history, Modern-18th century. 2. Military history, Modern-19th century. 3. Military history, Modern-20th century. 4. Military art and science-History-18th century. 5. Military art and science-History-19th century. 6. Military art and science-History-20th century. I. Title.
U39.A33 1994
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A GAIN, FOR Amanda AND Catherine
CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PREFACE
1. FROM DYNASTIC TO NATIONAL WARFARE, 1775-1815
I. Dynastic Warfare
A. Armies
B. Navies
II. The War of the American Revolution, 1775-83
III. The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815
A. Ideas Borrowed from the Old Royal Army before 1789
B. The Wars of the French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1789-1802
C. Napoleon and the Imperial Army at Zenith, 1804-7
D. The Decline of French Fortunes in the West and the Anglo-American War of 1812
E. The Decline of Napoleon s Fortunes in the East, the First Abdication, and the Return of the Hundred Days, 1808-15
2. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 1815-71
I. Armies
A. The Long Peace and Military Thought
B. The Technological Revolution in Land Warfare
C. The Prussian General Staff, the Nation-in-Arms, and the Kesselschlacht Doctrine
II. Navies
III. The Mid-Nineteenth Century Wars before 1861
IV. The American Civil War, 1861-65
A. The Opposing Sides
B. Tactics on Land
C. Naval Tactics and Coast Defense
D. Geography and Strategy
E. The Strategic Direction
F. The Eastern Theater to May 1864
G. The Western Theater to May 1864
H. The Final Campaigns, May 1864-April 1865
V. The Wars of German Unification, 1864-71
A. The Wars with Denmark and Austria, 1864-66
B. The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71
3. THE MARCH TOWARD WORLD WAR, 1871-1914
I. Armies
A. The Spread of the German System and the Technology of Land Warfare
B. The Alliance Systems and Contingency War Plans
C. The Anglo-American Military Experience to 1914
II. Navies
A. The Challenge of the Jeune cole to 1889
B. The Mahanite School of Naval Power, 1890-1914
C. Technical Developments in Navies, 1890-1914
III. The Wars, 1871-1914
A. The Russo-Turkish War and Tensions among the Great Powers, 1877-78
B. The Overseas Colonial Wars
C. The Spanish-American War, 1898
D. The Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars
E. The Final Wars and Crises before 1914
4. THE FIRST WORLD WAR, 1914-18
I. The Outbreak and the Stalemate of 1914
A. The Outbreak of War
B. The Opening Battles and Stalemate in the West, 1914
C. The Opening Battles and Stalemate on the Eastern Front, 1914
D. The War at Sea, 1914
II. The Search for Victory, 1915-16
A. Allied Strategy and Operations, 1915
B. German Strategy in 1915
C. The War at Sea, 1915
D. The War on Land, 1916
E. The War at Sea, 1916
F. The Rise of Air Power
G. The Development of Armored Fighting Vehicles
III. The Years of Decision, 1917-18
A. The 1917 U-Boat Campaign and America s Entry into the War
B. The Russian Collapse, the French Mutiny, and New German Methods of Land Warfare
C. British Failures and Successes in 1917
D. The Ludendorff Offensives, March-July 1918
E. Foch s Offensives to the End of the War, July-November 1918
5. BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS, 1919-39
I. The Failure of the Treaty Approach
II. Armies
III. Navies
IV. Air Forces
V. Electronic Warfare
VI. The Wars between the World Wars
6. THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-45
I. Hitler s War, 1939-41
A. The German Armed Forces to the Eve of War
B. The War from Poland to the Channel, September 1939-June 1940
C. From the Armistice of Compi gne to the Battle of Moscow, June 1940-December 1941
II. The European War, 1942-45
A. From Moscow to Sicily, January 1942-July 1943
B. The U-Boat War, the Allied Strategic Air Offensive, and Hitler s V-Weapons
C. From Sicily to the Liberation of France, August 1943-August 1944
D. The Final Battles and the Defeat of Nazi Germany, September 1944-May 1945
III. The Pacific War, 1941-45
A. The Road to Pearl Harbor
B. From Pearl Harbor to Midway, December 1941-June 1942
C. The Campaigns for Guadalcanal and Papua, August 1942-February 1943
D. The Twin-Axis Strategy and the Drive to the Philippines to June 1944
E. The Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, October 1944-June 1945
F. The Atomic Bomb, Russian Intervention, and the End of the Pacific War, August-September 1945
G. The China-Burma-India Theater and the Close of the War for East Asia
IV. World War II and the Patterns of War
7. THE PATTERNS OF THE COLD WAR, 1945-89, AND THEIR AFTERMATH
I. The Early Cold War, 1945-50
II. The Korean War, 1950-53
III. The Eisenhower Years, 1953-60
IV. The Vietnam War Era, 1961-75
A. The Strategic Race with the USSR in the 1960s
B. The Vietnam War from 1961 to 1968
C. The Final Phase of the Vietnam War, 1969-75
D. The U.S.-Sino-Soviet D tente, 1972
E. The Arab-Israeli Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, 1967 and 1973
V. The Cold War and Other Wars, 1975-89
A. The Continuing Arab-Israeli Problem
B. Intensification of the Cold War
C. The Wars of the Late 1970s and 1980s
VI. The Close of the Cold War
VII. Desert Storm: The U.N. s War with Iraq, 1991
EPILOGUE
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Illustrations
Admiral Horatio Nelson
Duke of Wellington
General Gerhard von Scharnhorst
General Carl von Clausewitz
Count Helmuth von Moltke, the Elder
La Gloire , 1859
HMS Black Prince , 1862
HMS Inflexible , 1881
HMS Devastation , 1871
Rifled musket and bayonet, U.S. Civil War
Mini balls, U.S. Civil War
Sharps breech-loading rifle, mid-nineteenth century
Prussian Dreyse rifle (needle gun), mid-nineteenth century
Siege gun, Gatling gun, and small arms, mid-nineteenth century
Whitworth breech-loader, mid-nineteenth century
Confederate 12-pounder howitzer, U.S. Civil War
20-pounder rifled Parrott gun, U.S. Civil War
Confederate breech-loading gun, U.S. Civil War
Count Alfred von Schlieffen
HMS Dreadnought , 1906
French 75-mm gun and British 18-pounder gun, World War I
German 21-cm howitzer, World War I
German pursuit plane, World War I
German aerial machine guns, World War I
British Mark I tank, 1916, World War I
General Heinz Guderian
German PzKw. III tank, World War II
Soviet T-34 tank, World War II
British long-range bombers, World War II
USS New Jersey , 1943
U.S. F-86 Sabre jet fighter, Korean War
U.S. Minuteman ICBM in its silo
Soviet SAM-2, Vietnam War era
Maps
The American Revolution, 1775-81
Europe in 1810
Europe in 1815
The Mexican War, 1846-48: Principal Operations
The Crimean War, 1854-56
The American Civil War: The Eastern and Western Theaters
The American Civil War: Northern Virginia
The American Civil War: The Gettysburg Campaign, 1863
The Wars of German Unification, 1866 and 1870
The Schlieffen Plan of 1905 and the French Plan XVII
The South African Theater of War, 1899-1902
The Spanish-American War, 1898
The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5
Battle of the Marne: BEF Penetrates Gap between German First and Second Armies, September 9, 1914
The Western Front, 1915-16
The Battle of Tannenberg, 1914
The Naval Battle of Jutland, May 31-June 1, 1916
The Ludendorff Offensives, March 21-June 4, 1918
The Western Front, 1918: Final Allied Offensive, September 25-November 11
The German Attack on Poland, September 1939
The German Offensive in the West, May 1940
Axis Offensive in the Balkans and the Middle East, April-May 1941
Operation Barbarossa: The German Pl