War, Strategy and the Modern State, 1792–1914
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War, Strategy and the Modern State, 1792–1914

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
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War, Strategy and the Modern State, 1792–1914

About this book

This book is a comparative study of military operations conducted my modern states between the French Revolution and World War I. It examines the complex relationship between political purpose and strategy on the one hand, and the challenge of realizing strategic goals through military operations on the other. It argues further that following the experience of the Napoleonic Wars military strength was awarded a primary status in determining the comparative modernity of all the Great Powers; that military goals came progressively to distort a sober understanding of the national interest; that a genuinely political and diplomatic understanding of national strategy was lost; and that these developments collectively rendered the military and political catastrophe of 1914 not inevitable yet probable.

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Yes, you can access War, Strategy and the Modern State, 1792–1914 by Carl Cavanagh Hodge in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Military & Maritime History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781848936133
eBook ISBN
9781315391366

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of maps
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. A conceptual prologue
  10. 1 Napoleonic warfare
  11. 2 Far-distant aggression: Anglo-French expeditionary warfare
  12. 3 Second Republic, Second Reich: American and Prussian wars of national unity
  13. 4 America, Japan, and the new navalism
  14. 5 Militarism and the modern state, 1890–1914
  15. Epilogue
  16. Select bibliography
  17. Index