Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
The library and the Web offer a vast selection of material that is relevant to this
module. The trick is to read critically, and with an eye to working out what matters
from a strategic perspective. As a starting point, heres a brief list of general readings.
Edward Mead Earle, ed., Makers of Modern Strategy From Machiavelli to Hitler
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1943)
In many respects the better of the two editions. The chapters on Clausewitz and Ludendorff
are particularly valuable
Azar Gat, A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Very good on the intellectual influences feeding into strategy
Williamson Murray, MacGregor Knox & Alvin Bernstein, eds, The Making of
Strategy: Rulers, States, and War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
As tends to happen with edited volumes, this one is of variable quality. Have a look at J.W.
Honigs review in Survival, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Winter 1997-98), pp. 188-190
Peter Paret, ed., Makers of Modern Strategy From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986)
Another collection of variable quality, but useful nonetheless
What follows is a list of additional readings that are more closely focused on the
lecture topics, which should provide you with a starting point for your own
explorations. Wherever possible, Ive included texts that are available electronically.
Unless otherwise indicated, the journal articles are available via the librarys ejournal
collection. I have also provided some hyperlinks to other sources.
What is strategy and how does it work?
Carl von Clausewitz, On War, tr. J. J. Graham (London: N. Trbner, 1874), rev. edn F.
N. Maude (London: Kegan & Paul, 1908), esp. Bk 1, Ch. 1
More literal and consistent in its choice of terms than the Howard & Paret edition, although
somewhat less readable. The text is now available online via this LINK. If youre interested in
buying a copy you might consider the 2004 reprint (NY: Barnes & Noble), which contains a
very useful introduction by J.W. Honig. You can also read the latter online at LINK
Azar Gat, Ideology, National Policy, Technology and Strategic Doctrine between the
World Wars, Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3 (September 2001), pp. 1-18
Holger H. Herwig, The Prussian Model and Military Planning Today, Joint Force
Quarterly (Spring 1998), pp. 67-75
Military efficiency is not enough.
Aaron L. Friedberg, Why Didnt the United States Become a Garrison State?,
International Security, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Spring 1992), pp. 109-42
Some reasons why the US put nuclear weapons at the centre of its cold-war strategy
Fred Kaplan, The Wizards of Armageddon (N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1983)
Lively account of developments in US nuclear strategy. For an interesting review see
Edward N. Luttwak, Of Bombs and Men, Commentary, Vol. 76, No. 2 (August
1983), pp. 77-82
James E. King Jr, Nuclear Plenty and Limited War, Foreign Affairs, Vol. Vol. 35,
No. 2 (January 1957), pp. 238-56
Maurice Matloff, The 90-Division Gamble LINK
Chapter from official account of US forces during the Second World War
X [George Kennan], The Sources of Soviet Conduct, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 4
(July 1947), pp. 566-82
Kennans famous articulation of the policy of Containment
Lawrence Freedman & Efraim Karsh, How Kuwait Was Won: Strategy in the Gulf
War, International Security, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Autumn 1991), pp. 5-41
Useful article on the subject
Lawrence Freedman, Victims and victors: reflections on the Kosovo war, Review of
International Studies, Vol. 26 (2000), pp. 335-58
Useful discussion of the constraints operating on the application of force
Robert A. Pape Jr, Coercive Airpower in the Vietnam War, International Security,
Vol. 15, No. 2 (Autumn 1990), pp. 103-46
Stephen Peter Rosen, Vietnam and the American theory of limited war,
International Security. Vol. 7, No. 2 (Fall 1982), pp. 83-113
A typical response to the failure of limited war in Vietnam. Is he correct?
John Stone, Air-Power, Land-Power and the Challenge of Ethnic Conflict, Civil
Wars, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Autumn 1999), pp. 26-42
The argument about politicizing strategy is the relevant section for our purposes
John Stone, Politics, Technology and the Revolution in Military Affairs, Journal of
Strategic Studies, Vol. 27, No. 3 (September 2004), pp. 408-27
The theoretical section is a bit awry, but useful nevertheless
Rgis Debray, Revolution in the Revolution? Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in
Latin America, tr. Bobbye Ortiz (N.Y.: MR Press, 1967)
Joshua Johnson, From Cuba to Bolivia: Guevaras Foco Theory in Practice,
Innovations, Vol. 6 (2006), pp. 26-32 LINK
Jos A. Moreno, Che Guevara on Guerrilla Warfare: Doctrine, Practice and
Evaluation, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 12, No. 2 (April 1970),
pp. 114-133
See also the response by Edward Friedman in the same journal
Selected Military Writings of Mao-Tse Tung (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1963)
Mao-Tse Tung, On Guerrilla Warfare, tr. Samuel. B. Griffith (N.Y.: Prager, 1961)
You can read an electronic version at LINK
Peter R Neumann & MLR Smith, Strategic Terrorism: The Framework and its
Fallacies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 28, No. 4 (August 2005), pp. 571-95
A good introduction to the strategic dimension of terrorism
Bruce Riedel, Return of the Knights: al-Qaeda and the Fruits of Middle East
Disorder, Survival, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Autumn 2007), pp. 107-20
Al-Qaedas strategy in its wider context
Lawrence Freedman, Iraq, Liberal Wars and Illiberal Containment, Survival, Vol. 48,
No. 4 (Winter 2006), pp. 51-65
The wider context
Philip H. Gordon, Winning the Right War, Survival, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Winter 200708), pp. 17-46
Has too much emphasis been placed on the use of force in the War on Terror?
Sarah E. Zabel, The Military Strategy of Global Jihad (Strategic Studies Institute,
2007)
Very useful. You can find it at LINK