基本説明
Offers a comprehensive overview of military conflict over several centuries.
Full Description
How has war shaped modern society and vice versa? How has it changed over the centuries between the introduction of firearms and the invention of the atom bomb? How is war waged today? This book examines the techniques, technology, and theory of warfare from the 'military revolution' of the seventeenth century to the present day. The expert contributors explore major developments and themes, including the growth of modern military professionalism and mass armies; the extraordinary achievements of Napoleon's armies; the role of nationalism in battlegrounds as various as the American Civil War and the former Yugoslavia; colonial wars; the concept and reality of 'total war'; guerrilla warfare and 'people's wars'.
Contents
Introduction: The Shape of Modern War; PART 1: THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN WAR; The Military Revolution I: The Transition to Modern Warfare; The Military Revolution II: Eighteenth-Century War; The Nation in Arms I: The French Wars; The Nations in Arms II: The Nineteenth Century; Imperial Wars: From the Seven Years War to the First World War; Total War I: The Great War; Total War II: The Second World War; Cold War; PART 2: ELEMENTS OF MODERN WAR; People's War; Technology and War I: To 1945; Battle: The Experience of Modern Combat; Sea Warfare; Air Warfare; War and the People: The Social Impact of Total War; Women and War; Against War; Technology and War II: Postmodern War?
