Twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each by Andrew R. Wilson, The U.S. Naval War College. Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, and bibliography. "Course no. 9422."
Contents:
lecture 24. lecture 1. From the Jaws of defeat -- strategic adaptation. lecture 2. Thucydides on strategy -- lecture 3. Thucydides as a possession for all time -- lecture 4. Sun Tzu's The art of war -- lecture 5. Sun Tzu through time -- lecture 6. Machiavelli's The art of war -- disc 2. lecture 7. Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy -- lecture 8. The Napoleonic revolution in war -- lecture 9. Baron Jomini as a strategist -- lecture 10. Clausewitz's On war -- lecture 11. Jomini and Clausewitz through the ages -- lecture 12. From sail to steam -- The sea-power revolution -- disc 3. lecture 13. Alfred Thayer Mahan -- lecture 14. Sir Julian Corbett -- lecture 15. Mahan, Corbett, and the Pacific war -- lecture 16. Air power in theory and practice -- lecture 17. From rolling thunder to instant thunder -- lecture 18. Nuclear strategy -- disc 4. lecture 19. Mao Tse-tung in theory and practice -- lecture 20. Classics of counterinsurgency -- lecture 21. Just-war theory -- lecture 22. Terrorism as strategy -- lecture 23. Strategies of counterterrorism -- lecture 24. From the Jaws of defeat -- strategic adaptation.
Summary:
"Military strategy matters. Civilizations with the greatest strategists-often coupled with the greatest resources-have had a powerful edge over competing civilizations. From Napoleon's revolutionary campaigns to the way insurgency, terrorism, and nuclear weaponry have defined the nature of warfare in the 21st century, the results of military strategy have changed the course of history. Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers gives you an inside look at both the content and historical context of the world's greatest war strategists. Taught by Professor Andrew R. Wilson, these 24 lectures will instill in you a new appreciation for the subtleties and complexities of strategy."--"The Great Courses" website descritpion.
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