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Part I The Age of Limited War
1. Gustavus Adolphus and the Military Revolution
2. Toward Limited War in Europe, 1648-1714
3. Limited War in Western Europe, 1714-1763
4. Anglo-American Warfare, 1607-1763: The Emergence of the People in Arms
5. The War for American Independence, 1775-1783: The People at War
Part II The Nation in Arms and National Warfare
6. Revolution in Warfare During the Age of the French Revolution
7. The Rise of Napoleonic Warfare: Increasing the Scale, Speed, and Decisiveness of Warfare
8. The Limits of Napoleonic Warfare
9. Breaking Napoleon's Power: Warfare on a New Scale
Part III Professionalism, Industrialization, and Mass Warfare in the Nineteenth Century
10. American Military Policy, 1783-1860: The Beginnings of Professionalism
11. The Civil War, 1861-1862 : The Lethal Face of Battle
12. The Civil War, 1862: Ending the Limited War
13. The Civil War, 1863: Moving Democracies Toward Total War
14. The Civil
15. The Transition from Napoleonic Methods to the Prussian Military System, 1815-1871Contents
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Part IV Total War and the Great War
16. Making War More Lethal, 1871- 1914
17. The Great War: An Indecisive Beginning
18. Attempting to End the Stalemate, 1914-1915
19. 1917: The Year of Desperation and Anticipation
20. Breaking the Hold of the Trenches, 1918
Part V Total War Around the World
21. Germany Triumphant: Restoring Mobility to War
22. Germany Arrested: The Limits of Expansion
23. The Atlantic and the Pacific: Producin
24. The Eastern and Mediterranean Fronts: Winning Battles of Men and Machines
25. Victory in Europe: Brute Force in the Air and on the Ground
26. Victory in the Pacific: Naval and Amphibious War on the Operational Level
Part VI Warfare in the Nuclear Era
27. The Cold War and the Nuclear Era: Adjusting Warfare to Weapons of Mass Destruction
28. Korea: Limiting War to Avoid Armageddon
29. The Vietnam War, 1961-1975: Revolutionary and Conventional Warfare in an Era of Limited War
30. War in the Middle East: Violence Across the Spectrum of Conflict
31. The Age of Interventions: Projecting Power and Enforcing Peace
Summary
Authoritative and concise, Warfare in the Western World concentrates on selected campaigns and battles, showing how political and military leaders in the West have used armies to wage war effectively over the last four centuries. The text moves through the centuries, discussing how operational developments and technological improvements eventually led to the concept of total war, first approached in the American Civil War and culminating in the twentieth centurys two world wars.
