Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-332) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. The world of war in the eighteenth century. Introduction -- Assessing significance -- Publications and experimentation -- Tasks for assessment -- Naval power -- Power projection -- Outcomes and choices -- The west and the rest -- The American War of Independence, 1775-83 -- War between the USA and Native Americans -- Europe before the French Revolution -- The French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-9 -- The rise of Napoleon -- Asian conflicts in the 1780s and 1790s -- Conclusions -- 2. Empires rise and fall, 1800-30. Introduction -- The rise of Britain -- Napoleon -- The War of 1812 -- The Latin American Wars of Independence -- Europe after Napoleon -- Developments elsewhere -- Conclusions -- 3. Moulding states, 1830-80. Introduction -- The aims of conflict -- The impact of technology -- The Taiping Rebellion, 1851-66 -- The American Civil War, 1861-5 -- The wars of German unification -- Latin America -- Conclusions -- 4. Building empires, 1830-1913. Introduction -- Western imperialism -- American expansion -- Naval power -- Non-western states -- East Asia -- 1789-1913 in review -- 5. World War One, 1914-18. Introduction -- Background -- Opening campaign -- Conflict within Europe -- Warfare outside Europe -- Closing campaign -- Conclusions -- 6. Between two world wars. Introduction -- Post-war conflict -- Civil war in China -- Elsewhere outside the west -- The British Empire in the 1930s -- The USA -- Naval developments -- Air power -- The Japanese in China, 1931-41 -- The Spanish Civil War -- German rearmament -- Conclusions -- 7. World War Two, 1939-45. Introduction -- Opening campaigns, 1939-41 -- Soviet Union attacked, 1941 -- War in the Pacific, 1941-2 -- Axis attacks held, 1942 -- The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-45 -- Beating Germany, 1943-4 -- D-Day, 1944 -- Defeating Germany, 1944-5 -- Defeating Japan, 1943-5 -- Air power, 1939-45 -- War and society -- Why the axis lost -- Conclusions -- 8. Wars of decolonisation, 1945-94. Introduction -- The late 1940s -- The Malayan emergency -- France in Indo-China -- France in Algeria -- Britain and decolonisation -- Portugal and decolonisation -- Elsewhere in Africa -- Conclusions -- 9. The Cold War. Introduction -- The Chinese Civil War, 1946-9 -- The Korean War, 1950-3 -- The Vietnam War -- Confrontation in Europe -- Planning for Armageddon -- Rockets -- The Afghan War -- The last stages of the Cold War -- Conclusions -- 10. Wars between non-western powers, 1945-90. Introduction -- Border wars -- Intervention wars -- South Asia -- The Middle East -- Arab-Israeli wars -- Latin America -- Rebellions -- Coups -- Force and the state -- Conclusions -- 11. War in the 1990s. Introduction -- The Gulf War, 1990-1 -- American operations -- Somalia and Haiti -- Chechnya -- The former Soviet Union -- Yugoslavia -- Non-western conflicts -- Conclusions -- 12. War in the 2000s and 2010s. Introduction -- The war on terrorism -- The revolution in military affairs -- Attempted revolutions in military affairs -- War in Iraq -- War in Afghanistan -- Expenditure -- Africa -- Domestic pressures -- Syria -- War and disorder -- Conclusions -- 13. Conclusions. Introduction -- Technology -- The west versus the rest -- Fitness for purpose -- Cultural interpretations -- Conclusions.
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