Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sea Power -- Billy Mitchell and Air Power -- Bernard Brodie, Robert Osgood and Limited War -- Thomas Schelling War as Bargaining and Coercion -- Herman Kahn and Escalation -- Henry Eccles and Reforming Strategic Theory -- J. C. Wiley and Strategy as Control -- Harry Summers and the Principles of War -- John Boyd, William Lind and Maneuver -- John Warden and Air Operational Art.
Summary:
"Antulio J. Echevarria II reveals how successive generations of American strategic theorists have thought about war. Analyzing the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Billy Mitchell, Bernard Brodie, Robert Osgood, Thomas Schelling, Herman Kahn, Henry Eccles, Joseph Wiley, Harry Summers, John Boyd, William Lind, and John Warden, he uncovers the logic that underpinned each theorist's critical concepts, core principles, and basic assumptions about the nature and character of war. In so doing, he identifies four paradigms of war's nature-traditional, modern, political, and materialist-that have shaped American strategic thought. If war's logic is political, as Carl von Clausewitz said, then so too is thinking about war"-- Provided by publisher.
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