The Prospect Of War

Author : John Gooch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136279287

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The Prospect of War by John Gooch Pdf

First Published in 1981. The essays collected together in this volume deal, for the most part, with the two themes which have seemed to the author the most significant and the most intriguing in the passage made by the military in Britain from the Victorian age to World War. The major theme is that of the transition of military strategy and policy from a preoccupation with the limited, though by no means undemanding, requirements of a sprawling empire in an age of diplomatic self-sufficiency to the enormous burdens of continental involvement in Europe against Germany, as the mass army replaced the capital fleet in the world's military pecking order.

Author : John Gooch
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780714631288

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First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538169902

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Facing China by Jean-Pierre Cabestan Pdf

Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a China specialist based in Hong Kong, provides an overview of “Thucydides’ Trap,” as coined by political scientist Graham Allison to describe the inescapable conflict between Beijing and Washington. Is China’s growing power a threat to the United States? Could it lead to war between the two nations? Economically and militarily stronger, and more nationalist than ever, the People’s Republic of China is increasingly tempted to use force to assert its power, especially in its immediate region. First, the author considers the factors around the threat of war, specifically on the Chinese side, then presents the three most likely armed conflict scenarios: around Taiwan; in the South China Sea; or in the Senkaku Islands under Japanese control. Cabestan also analyses the tensions between China and India along their common borders, which were revived in 2020. But the most likely scenario, according to Cabestan, would be a rapid, piecemeal attack, aimed at tearing borders apart or defending vested interests – not to mention increased cyber warfare. It could also manifest itself as the emergence of a new type of cold war, punctuated by crises bordering on either a nuclear strike or the use of new weapons. U.S.-Chinese tensions and the many potential fronts on which they could elevate are a conflict-in-waiting which will weigh on the 21st century and dominate international life as China seeks to become entrenched as a dominant world power.

Author : Manfred F. Boemeke,Roger Chickering,Stig Förster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521622948

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Anticipating Total War by Manfred F. Boemeke,Roger Chickering,Stig Förster Pdf

The essays in Anticipating Total War explore the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914. The concept of "total war" provides the analytical focus. The essays reveal vigorous discussions of warfare in several forums among soldiers, statesmen, women's groups, and educators on both sides of the Atlantic. Predictions of long, cataclysmic wars were not uncommon in these discussions, while the involvement of German and American soldiers in colonial warfare suggested that future combat would not spare civilians. Despite these "anticipations of total war," virtually no one realized the practical implications in planning for war in the early twentieth century.

Author : James Shergold Boone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Bible
ISBN : BL:A0021641980

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Two Sermons on the Prospect of a General War by James Shergold Boone Pdf

Author : John Dunmore Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Australia
ISBN : YALE:39002088661088

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The Prospect for Australia in the Event of a War with France: Being a Lecture Delivered in Sydney in the Evening of Monday, August 23rd, 1858 by John Dunmore Lang Pdf

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz Pdf

"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Peter Whitewood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350238961

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The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy by Peter Whitewood Pdf

This detailed study traces the history of the Soviet-Polish War (1919-20), the first major international clash between the forces of communism and anti-communism, and the impact this had on Soviet Russia in the years that followed. It reflects upon how the Bolsheviks fought not only to defend the fledgling Soviet state, but also to bring the revolution to Europe. Peter Whitewood shows that while the Red Army's rapid drive to the gates of Warsaw in summer 1920 raised great hopes for world revolution, the subsequent collapse of the offensive had a more striking result. The Soviet military and political leadership drew the mistaken conclusion that they had not been defeated by the Polish Army, but by the forces of the capitalist world – Britain and France – who were perceived as having directed the war behind-the-scenes. They were taken aback by the strength of the forces of counterrevolution and convinced they had been overcome by the capitalist powers. The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy reveals that – in the aftermath of the catastrophe at Warsaw –Lenin, Stalin and other senior Bolsheviks were convinced that another war against Poland and its capitalist backers was inevitable with this perpetual fear of war shaping the evolution of the early Soviet state. It also further encouraged the creation of a centralised and repressive one-party state and provided a powerful rationale for the breakneck industrialisation of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1920s. The Soviet leadership's central preoccupation in the 1930s was Nazi Germany; this book convincingly argues that Bolshevik perceptions of Poland and the capitalist world in the decade before were given as much significance and were ultimately crucial to the rise of Stalinism.

Author : Christian Brose
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780316533362

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The Kill Chain by Christian Brose Pdf

From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might. For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons that it fights with, have been uncontested. That old reality, however, is rapidly deteriorating. America's traditional sources of power are eroding amid the emergence of new technologies and the growing military threat posed by rivals such as China. America is at grave risk of losing a future war. As Christian Brose reveals in this urgent wake-up call, the future will be defined by artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and other emerging technologies that are revolutionizing global industries and are now poised to overturn the model of American defense. This fascinating, if disturbing, book confronts the existential risks on the horizon, charting a way for America's military to adapt and succeed with new thinking as well as new technology. America must build a battle network of systems that enables people to rapidly understand threats, make decisions, and take military actions, the process known as "the kill chain." Examining threats from China, Russia, and elsewhere, The Kill Chain offers hope and, ultimately, insights on how America can apply advanced technologies to prevent war, deter aggression, and maintain peace.

Author : Martin J. Medhurst
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1585446270

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The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric by Martin J. Medhurst Pdf

Culminating a decade of conferences that have explored presidential speech, The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric assesses progress and suggests directions for both the practice of presidential speech and its study. In Part One, following an analytic review of the field by Martin Medhurst, contributors address the state of the art in their own areas of expertise. Roderick P. Hart then summarizes their work in the course of his rebuttal of an argument made by political scientist George Edwards: that presidential rhetoric lacks political impact. Part Two of the volume consists of the forward-looking reports of six task forces, comprising more than forty scholars, charged with outlining the likely future course of presidential rhetoric, as well as the major questions scholars should ask about it and the tools at their disposal. The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric will serve as a pivotal work for students and scholars of public discourse and the presidency who seek to understand the shifting landscape of American political leadership.

Author : Frances Ellen Colenso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:$B58288

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History of the Zulu War and Its Origin by Frances Ellen Colenso Pdf

Author : Eve Patten,Richard Pine
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527561830

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Literatures of War by Eve Patten,Richard Pine Pdf

“The most terrible disaster that one group of human beings can inflict on another is war. Wars cause misery on an indescribable scale. Yet we go on doing it to one another, generation after generation. Why? Warfare is a recurrent and universal characteristic of human existence. The mythologies of practically all peoples abound in wars and the superhuman deeds of warriors, and pre-literate communities apparently delighted in the recital of stories about battles. Since our species became literate a mere 5,000 years ago, written history has mostly been the history of wars. Thousands who knew war evidently sickened of it and dreamt of lasting peace, expressing their vision in literature and art, in philosophy and religion. They imagined Utopias freed of martial ambition and bloodshed which harked back to the Golden Age of classical antiquity, to the Christian vision of a paradise lost, and to the Arcadia of Greek and Latin poetry, so richly celebrated in the canvases of Claude and Poussin. All these things bear eloquent testimony to the human longing for peace, but they have not triumphed over our dreadfully powerful propensity to war.” —from the Introduction by Anthony Stevens In this multi-disciplinary collection of essays on the manifestations of war in poetry, fiction, drama, music and documentaries, scholars and practitioners from an international context describe the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.

Author : Mark J. Porrovecchio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135167745

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Reengaging the Prospect(s) of Rhetoric by Mark J. Porrovecchio Pdf

Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric reanimates the debate over the function and scope of rhetoric. Providing a contemporary response to the volume The Prospect of Rhetoric (1971), this volume reconceptualizes that classic work to address the challenges facing the study of rhetoric today. As a standalone text or a supplemental resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in the history, theory, and criticism of rhetoric or contemporary rhetorical theory, it will help to shape rhetoric’s future role in communication studies and will foster interdisciplinary dialogues about the topic.

Author : Tarek Cherkaoui
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786721433

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The News Media At War by Tarek Cherkaoui Pdf

Tarek Cherkaoui reveals how geo-political and ideological legacies of the past, which divide the world into a dichotomy of 'us' against 'them', play a dominant role in reinforcing the ensuing polarisation of our media.

Author : Edmund Ollier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600004436

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Cassell's history of the war between France and Germany, 1870-1871 by Edmund Ollier Pdf