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CE Master’s (Military Studies)

CAMPAIGN AND WAR STUDIES

1. CONCEPT OF STRATEGY

a. Recommended Readings

Clausewitz, Carl von. 1976. On War (Michael Howard and Peter Paret, eds. and trans.).

Princeton: Princeton University Press: 75-123.

Gray, Colin S. 1999. Modern Strategy. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 16-128.

b. Additional Readings

Beaufre, Andre. 1967. Strategy of Action. London: Faber and Faber.

Chaliand, Gerard, ed. 1994. The Art of War in World History. Berkeley: University of

California: 1023-1040.

Echevarria, Antulio J. II. 1996. Moltke and the German Military Tradition: His Theories

and Legacies. Parameters 26(1).

Janiczek, Rudolph M. 2007. A Concept at the Crossroads: Rethinking the Centre of

Gravity. Carlisle: US Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute.

Seow Hiang, Lee. 1999. Center of Gravity or Center of Confusion: Understanding the

Mystique. Maxwell AFB, Al: Air Command and Staff College Wright Flyer Paper No.

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Creveld, Martin van. 1991. The Transformation of War. New York: The Free Press.

Vego, Milan. 2000. Centre of Gravity. In Military Review LXXXX(2).

Watts, Barry D. 1996. Clausewitzian Friction and Future War. McNair Paper No. 52.

Washington, D.C.: National Defense University.

2. ANNIHILATION STRATEGIES

a. Recommended Readings (Clausewitz)

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Paret, Peter. 1986. Clausewitz. Peter Paret, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy from

Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 186-213.

b. Recommended Readings (Center of Gravity)

Strange, Joseph. 1996. Centers of Gravity & Critical Vulnerabilities: Building on the

Clausewitzian Foundation So We Can All Speak the Same Language. Perspectives on

Warfighting Number Four, 2nd

ed. Quantico, VA: Marine Corps Association.

c. Additional Readings

Creveld, Martin van. 1997. What is Wrong with Clausewitz? Gert de Nooy, ed. The

Clausewitzian Dictum and the Future of Western Military Strategy. The Hague and

Boston: Kluwer Law International: 7-23.

Heuser, Beatrice. 2010. The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the

Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Luttwak, Edward N. 1980-1981. The Operational Level of War. International Security

(Winter).

Paret, Peter. 1976. Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times.

Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Rogers, Clifford J. 2002. Clausewitz, Genius, and the Rules. Journal of Military History

66(4): 1167–1176.

Wallach, Jehuda. 1986. The Dogma of the Battle of Annihilation: The Theories of

Clausewitz and Schlieffen and Their Impact on the German Conduct of Two World Wars.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Herberg-Rothe, Andreas. 2007. Clausewitz‘s Puzzle: The Political Theory of War.

London: Oxford University Press.

3. DISLOCATION


Bassford, Christopher. 1994. Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in

Britain and America, 1815-1945. New York, Oxford University Press: 128-143.

Howard, Michael. 1966. Jomini and the Classical Tradition. Michael Howard, ed. The

Theory and Practice of War. New York: Praeger: 3-20.

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Linn, Brian McAllister. 2007. The Echo of Battle. Cambridge: Harvard University Press:

193-232.

Murray, Williamson. 1996. Innovation in Armoured War. Williamson Murray and Allan

R. Millett, eds. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

Rothenberg, Günther. 1986. Moltke, Schlieffen, and the Doctrine of Strategic

Envelopment. Peter Paret, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy. Princeton: Princeton

University Press: 296-325.

Shy, John. 1986. Jomini. In Peter Paret, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy. Princeton:

Princeton University Press: 143-185

Warden, John. 1995. The Enemy as a System. Airpower Journal (Spring): 40-55.

b. Additional Readings (Manoeuvre Theorists)

Bolger, Daniel. 1993. Maneuver Warfare Reconsidered. Richard Hooker, ed. Maneuver

Warfare: An Anthology. Novato, CA: Presidio.

Bond, Brian. 1977. Liddell Hart: A Study of his Military Thought. London: Cassell.

Brinton, Crane, Gordon A. Craig, and Felix Gilbert. 1944. Jomini. Edward Mead Earle,

ed. Makers of Modern Strategy: Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler. Princeton:

Princeton University Press.

Danchev, Alex. 1998. Alchemist of War: The Life of Basil Liddell Hart. London:

Nicholson.

Gat, Azar. 1998. Fascist and Liberal Visions of War: Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and

Other Modernists. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Harris, J.P. 1995. Men, Ideas, and Tanks: British Military Thought and Armoured

Forces, 1903-1939. Manchester: University of Manchester Press.

Higham, Robin. 1966. The Military Intellectuals in Britain, 1918-1939. New Brunswick,

NJ: Rutgers University Press: 42-46, 67-81, 237-43.

Hooker, Richard. 1993. Maneuver Warfare: An Anthology. Novato, CA: Presidio.

Leonard, Robert. 1994. The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver Warfare Theory and Airland

Battle. Novato: Presidio: 27-60.

Lind, William. 1985. Maneuver Warfare Handbook. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

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Luvaas, Jay. 1964. The Education of an Army: British Military Thought, 1815-1940.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 335-75.

Mertsalov, A.N. 2004. Jomini versus Clausewitz. Mark and Ljubica Erickson, eds.

Russia: War, Peace and Diplomacy. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 11-19.

Naveh, Shimon. 1997. In Pursuit of Military Excellence: The Evolution of Operational

Theory. London: Frank Cass.

Mearsheimer, John. 1988. Liddell Hart and the Weight of History. Ithaca, New York:

Cornell University Press.

Osinga, Frans. 2007. Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd.

Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Reid, Brian Holden. 1987. JFC Fuller, Military Thinker. New York: Saint Martin's

Press.

Trythall, Anthony John. 1977. ―Boney‖ Fuller: Soldier, Strategist, and Writer. New

Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.

c. Additional Readings (Indirect Approach, the Deep Battle, and Military

Innovation)

Corum, James. 1992. The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and the German Military

Reform. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.

Habeck, Mary. 2003. Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany

and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Hofmann, George. 1997. Combatant Arms vs. Combined Arms: The U.S. Army‟s Quest

for Deep Offensive Operations and an Operational Level of Warfare. Armor (Jan-Feb):

6-13, 51-52.

Irwin, A.S.H. 1993. Liddell Hart and the Indirect Approach to Strategy. Brian Holden

Reid, ed. The Science of War. London: Routledge.

Kipp, Jacob. 2000. Military Reform and the Red Army, 1918–1941. Harold R. Winton

and David R. Mets, eds. The Challenge of Change: Military Institutions and New

Realities, 1918–1941. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Milne, Duncan. 1988. An Example of Force Deployment: Tukhachevsky and the Soviet

Art of Deep Battle. Allan English, ed. The Changing Face of War: Learning from

History. Montreal: McGill-Queens Press: 67-82.

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Simpkin, Richard. 1987. Deep Battle: The Brainchild of Marshal Tukachevskii. London:

Brassey‟s Defence Publishers.

Stoecker, Sally. 1998. Forging Stalin‘s Army: Marshal Tukhachevsky and the Politics of

Military Innovation. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Warden, John. 1988. The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat. Washington: NDU Press.

Winton, Harold. 1988. To Change an Army: General Sir John Stuart-Burnett and British

Armor Doctrine, 1927-1938. Lawrence, KS: Universities of Kansas Press.

4. POLITICS, ECONOMICS, SOCIETY, TECHNOLOGY AND STRATEGY


Black, Jeremy. 1999. War and the World, 1450-2000. Journal of Military History 63(3):

669-681.

Booth, Ken. 1979. Strategy and Ethnocentrism. London: Croom Helm.

Farrell, Theo and Terry Terriff, eds. 2002. The Sources of Military Change: Culture,

Politics, Technology. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner.

Howard, Michael. 1976. War in European History.

Katzenstein, Peter J., ed. 1996. The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in

World Politics. New York: Columbia University Press.

Kennedy, Paul. 1987. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and

Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000. New York: Random House.

Murray, Williamson, and McGregor Knox. 2001. Thinking about revolutions in warfare.

MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray, eds. The Dynamics of Military Revolution,

1300–2050. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 1-14.

Lynn, John. 2001. Forging the Western army in seventeenth-century France. MacGregor

Knox and Williamson Murray, eds. The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 35-56.

Beyerchen, Alan. 1996. From radio to radar: interwar military adaptation to technological

change in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Williamson Murray and

Alan R. Millett, eds. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period. Cambridge: Cambridge


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Ellis, John. 1986. The Social History of the Machine Gun. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins

University Press.

Hundley, Richard O. 1999. The Characteristics of Revolutions in Military Affairs. Past

Revolutions, Future Transformation: What can the history of revolutions in military

affairs tell us about transforming the U.S. Military? Santa Monica, CA: RAND.

Krepinevich, Andrew. 1994. Cavalry to Computer: The Pattern of Military Revolutions.

The National Interest 37 (Fall): 30-42.

Owens, Bill. 2002. Lifting the Fog of War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press:

30-42.


Adams, Simon. 1995. Tactics or Politics? 'The Military Revolution' and the Hapsburg

Hegemony, 1525-1648. Clifford Rogers, ed. The Military Revolution. Readings on the

military transformation of Early Modern Europe. New York: Oxford.

Black, Jeremy. 2007. European Warfare in a Global Context, 1660-1815. Routledge.

Chandler, David. 1994. The Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough. Tunbridge Wells,

UK: Spellmount.

Childs, John. 2003. Warfare in the Seventeenth Century. London: Weidenfeld &

Nicolson.

Downing, Brian M. 1992. The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of

Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe. Princeton: Princeton University

Press.

Duffy, Michael. 1980. The Military Revolution and the State 1500-1800. London:

Humanities.

Guthrie, William P. 2002. Battles of the Thirty Years War, From White Mountain to

Nördlingen. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Hall, Bert and DeVries, Kelly. 1990. Essay Review – the „Military Revolution‟ Revisited.

Technology and Culture (31): 500-507.

Kleinschmidt, Harald. 1999. Using the Gun: Manual Drill and the Proliferation of

Portable Firearms. Journal of Military History 63(3): 601-629.

Knox, Macgregor, and Williamson Murray, eds. 2001. The Dynamics of Military

Revolution, 1300–2050. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Parker, Geoffrey. 1976. The Military Revolution, 1560-1660 - A Myth? Journal of

Modern History, 48 (1976); reprinted in Spain and the Netherlands 1559-1659: Ten

Studies. London: Collins, 1979.

Paret, Peter. 1992. Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military

Power. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 75-92.

Parrott, David A. 1992. The Military revolution in Early Modern Europe. History Today

(42).

Clifford Rogers, ed. 1995. The Military Revolution. Readings on the military

transformation of Early Modern Europe. New York: Oxford.

Roberts, Michael. The Military Revolution, 1560-1660, reprinted in The Military

Revolution Debate: Readings on the Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe.

Rothenberg, G. E. 1986. Maurice of Nassau, Gustavus Adolphus, Raimondo

Montecuccoli and the „Military Revolution‟ of the seventeenth century. Peter Paret, ed.

Makers of Modern Strategy. New York: Oxford University Press: 32-63.

Stradling, R. A. 1994. A „military revolution‟: the fall-out from the fall-in. European

History Quarterly (24): 271-8.

Tilly, Charles. 1990. Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992. Oxford:

Wiley-Blackwell.

Bidwell, Shelford, and Dominick Graham. 2004. Fire-Power. London: Leo Cooper.

Creveld, Martin van. 1989. Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present. New

York: Free Press, 1989: 153-232.

Dupuy, T. N. 1990. The Evolution of Weapons and Warfare. Fairfax, VA: De Capo.

Glete, Jan. 2001. War and the State in Early Modern Europe: Spain, the Dutch Republic

and Sweden as Fiscal-Military States, 1500-1660. London: Routledge.

Graham, Dominick. 1982. Sans Doctrine: British Army Tactics in the First World War.

Timothy Travers and Christon Archer, eds. Men at War: Politics, Technology and

Innovation in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: Precedent.

Guerlac, Henry. 1986. Vauban: The Impact of Science in War. Peter Paret, ed. Makers of

Modern Strategy. New York: Oxford University Press: 64-90.

Hall, Bert. 2001. Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder,

Technology, and Tactics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Keaney, Thomas A., and Cohen, Eliot A. 1995. Revolution in Warfare? Air Power in the

Persian Gulf. Annapolis, MD: GPO.

McNeill, William. 1984. The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society

since A.D. 1000. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Parker, Geoffrey. 2004. The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659: The

Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries' Wars. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

O'Connell, Robert. 1990. Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and

Aggression. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Raudzens, George. 1990. War-Winning Weapons: The Measurement of Technological

Determinism in Military History. Journal of Military History 54(4): 403-434.

Steele, Brett and Tamara Dorland, eds. 2005. The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the

Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment. Boston: MIT Press.

5. NAPOLEONIC WARFARE


Alexander, Bevin. 1993. How Great Generals Win. New York, Norton: 95-122.

Chandler, David. 1973. The Campaigns of Napoleon. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Gates, David. 1998. Napoleon as General. In History Today (June): 47-54.

Paret, Peter. 1986. Napoleon and the Revolution in War. Peter Paret, ed. Makers of

Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Princeton: Princeton University

Press: 123-142.

Rothenburg, Andreas. 1980. The Art of War in the Age of Napoleon. Bloomington:

University of Indiana.


Addington, Larry H. 1984. Patterns of War since the Eighteenth Century. Bloomington,

Indiana University Press: 17-39.

Knox, MacGregor. 2001. Mass Politics and Nationalism as Military Revolution: the

French Revolution and after. MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray, eds. The

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Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press:

57-73.

Lynn, John. 1984. The Bayonets of the Republic: Motivation and Tactics in the Army of

Revolutionary France 1791-94. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

MacKenzie, S.P. 1997. Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era: A Revisionist

Approach. Oxford: Routledge: 33-50.



c. Supplemental Readings

Arnold, James R. 1995. Napoleon Conquers Austria: The 1809 Campaign for Vienna.

Bell, David A. 2008. The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare

as We Know It.

Black, Jeremy. 2000. Why the French Failed: New Work on the Military History of

French Imperialism 1792-1815. European History Quarterly: 105-115.

Chandler, David. 1973. The Campaigns of Napoleon: the Mind and Method of History's

Greatest Soldier.

Connelly, Owen. 2006. Blundering to Glory: Napoleon's Military Campaigns 2nd

ed.

Duffy, Christopher. 1999. Austerlitz, 1805.

Duffy, Christopher. 1999. Borodino and the War of 1812.

Epstein, Robert M. 1994. Napoleon's Last Victory and the Emergence of Modern War.

Forrest, Alan. 2002. Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire.

Gates, David. 1997. The Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815.

Heit, Siegfried. 1980. German Romanticism: an Ideological Response to Napoleon.

Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850: Proceedings I: 187-197.

Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: 121-139.

Liaropoulos, Andrew N. 2006. Revolutions in Warfare: Theoretical Paradigms and

Historical Evidence; the Napoleonic and First World War Revolutions in Military

Affairs. Journal of Military History: 363-384.

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Luvaas, Jay. 2001. Napoleon on the Art of War.

Muir, Rory. 2000. Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon.

Riley, J. P. 2000. Napoleon and the World War of 1813: Lessons in Coalition

Warfighting.

Riley, Jonathon. 2007. Napoleon As a General: Command from the Battlefield to Grand

Strategy.

Rothenberg, Gunther. 2006. The Napoleonic Wars.

Recommended Readings (Battle of the Central Position: Jena-Aüerstadt)



d. Additional Readings

Chandler, David. 1993. Jena: Napoleon Destroys Prussia. Osprey.

Connelly, Owen. 1999. Blundering to Glory; Napoleon's Military Campaigns, rev. ed.

Wilmington, DE: SR Books.

Weigley, Russell. 1991. The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from

Breitenfeld to Waterloo. Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 390-398.

6. 19th

CENTURY WARFARE


Förster, Stig, and Jorg Nagler, eds. 1997. On the Road to Total War: The American Civil

War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press. (chapters on: “Prussian Triangle of Leadership,” “Union Generalship, Political

Leadership and Total War Strategy,” and “From Limited to Total War in America.”) *

Grimsley, Mark. 2001. Surviving military revolution: the US Civil War. MacGregor

Knox and Williamson Murray, eds. The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 74-91.

Holborn, Hajo. 1986. The Prusso-German School: Moltke and the Rise of the General

Staff. Peter Paret, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press: 281-295.

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Gunther E. Rothenberg. 1986. Moltke, Schlieffen, and the Doctrine of Strategic

Envelopment. Peter Paret, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the

Nuclear Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press: 296-325.

Jones, Archer. 2000. The Art of War in Western World. Champagne-Urbana, IL:

University of Illinois Press: 387-433, 613-716.

Showalter, Dennis E. 2000. From Deterrence to Doomsday Machine: The German Way

of War, 1890-1914. The Journal of Military History (July): 679-710.

Weigley, Russell F. 1973. The American Way of War. New York: Macmillan: 128-152.

b. Recommended Readings (Indirect Approach: Sherman in Georgia)

Hanson, Victor Davis. 1999. The Soul of Battle. New York: Anchor: 131-47, 221-31.

Liddell Hart, B. H. 1993. Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American. Da Capo reprint: 231-52.

Trudeau, Noah Andre. 2008. Southern Storm: Sherman‘s March to the Sea. New York:

HarperCollins: 33-58.


Addington, Larry. 1994. The Patterns of Warfare since the Eighteenth Century.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2nd

ed.

Current, Richard, 1996. God and the Strongest Battalions. David Donald, ed. Why the

North Won the Civil War. NY: Simon & Schuster; Touchstone ed.

Echevarria, Antulio J. II. 2001. After Clausewitz: German Military Thinkers Before the

Great War. Lawrence, KS: Universities of Kansas Press.

Hughes, Daniel J. 1995. Schlichting, Schlieffen, and the Prussian Theory of War in 1914.

The Journal of Military History (April): 257-277.

Jones, Archer. 1993. Military Means, Political Ends: Strategy. Gabor Boritt, ed. Why the

Confederacy Lost. New York: Oxford University Press.

Knox, MacGregor. 2001. Mass Politics and nationalism as military revolution: the French

Revolution and after. MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray, eds. The Dynamics of

Military Revolution, 1300–2050. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 57-73

McPherson, James. 1988. Battle Cry of Freedom. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Showalter, Dennis E. 1975. Railroads and Rifles: Soldiers, Technology, and the

Unification of Germany. Hamden, Conn.: Archon.

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Davis, Burke. 1988. Sherman's March: The First Full-Length Narrative of General

William T. Sherman's Devastating March through Georgia and the Carolinas. Vintage

Paperback.

Glatthaar, Joseph. 1995. The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman‘s Troops in the

Savannah and Carolina Campaigns. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.

Marszalek, John. 2005. Sherman‘s March to the Sea. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.

McDonough, James Lee, and James Pickett Jones. 1988. War So Terrible: Sherman and

Atlanta. New York: Norton.

7. WORLD WAR I


Bailey, Jonathan. 2001. The First World War and the birth of modern warfare.



Craig, Gordon A. 1986. The Political Leader as Strategist. Peter Paret, ed. Makers of


Press: 481-91.

Michael Geyer. 1986. German Strategy in the Age of Machine Warfare. Peter Paret, ed.

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Princeton: Princeton


Michael Howard. 1986. Men against Fire: The doctrine of the Offensive in 1914. Peter

Paret, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Princeton:

Princeton University Press: 510-526.

Doughty, Robert. 2008. Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great

War. Boston: Harvard University Press.

Hughes, Daniel. 1995. Schlichting, Schlieffen, and the Prussian Theory of War in 1914.

The Journal of Military History (April): 257-277.

Rothenberg, Günther. 1986. Moltke, Schlieffen, and the Doctrine of Strategic

Envelopment. Peter Paret, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the

Nuclear Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 311-325.

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Showalter, Dennis. 2000. From Deterrence to Doomsday Machine: The German Way of

War, 1890-1914. The Journal of Military History (July): 679-710.

b. Recommended Readings (The birth of a new mode of warfare: Western Front,

1918)

Herwig, Holger. 1999. German Victories, 1917-1918. Hew Strachan, ed. World War I: A

History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Timothy Travers. 1999. Allied Victories, 1918. Hew Strachan, ed. World War I: A

History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Trask, David. 2007. Foch‟s General Counteroffensive, Part I. Michael S. Neiberg, ed. The

World War I Reader. New York: New York University Press.

Wilhelm Deist. 2007. The Military Collapse of the German Empire. Michael S. Neiberg,

ed. The World War I Reader. New York: New York University Press.

Travers, Timothy. 1992. How the war was won: command and technology in the British

Army on the western front, 1917-1918. London: Routledge.


Ellis, John. 1989. Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I. Baltimore: Johns

Hopkins University Press.

Griffith, Paddy. 1996. The Extent of Tactical Reform in the British Army. Paddy Griffith,

ed. British Fighting Methods in the Great War. London: Frank Cass.

Prior, Robin and Trevor Wilson. 1992. Command on the Western Front: The Military

Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson. Oxford: Blackwell.

Samuels, Martin. 1995. Command or Control? Command, Training and Tactics in the

British and German Armies, 1888-1918. London: Frank Cass.

Travers, Tim. 2003. Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front and

Emergence of Modern Warfare 1900-1918. Pen & Sword, reprint.

8. WORLD WAR II


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Archer, Christon, John R. Ferris, Holger H. Herwig and Timothy Travers. 2002. World

History of Warfare. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press.

Craig, Gordon. 1986. The Political Leader as Strategist. Peter Paret, ed. Makers of


Press: 491-509.

Geyer, Michael. 1986. German Strategy in the Age of Machine Warfare. Peter Paret, ed.

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Princeton: Princeton


Rice, Condoleezza. 1986. The Making of Soviet Strategy. Peter Paret, ed. Makers of


Press: 669-76.

Matloff, Maurice. 1986. Allied Strategy in Europe, 1939-1945. Peter Paret, ed. Makers of


Press: 677-702.

Clayton, James, D. 1986. American and Japanese Strategy in the Pacific War. Peter Paret,

ed. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Princeton:


Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. New York: Random House: 339-

357.

McKercher, B. J. C. and Roch Legault, eds. 2001. Military Planning and the Origins of

the Second World War in Europe. Westport, CT: Praeger: 89-101.

Recommended Reading (Manoeuvre Warfare: The Blitz in the West, 1940)

Cohen, Eliot A. and John Gooch. 1990. Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in

War. New York: Free Press.

Murray, Williamson. 2001. May 1940: contingency and fragility of the German RMA.




Barlow, Jeffry. 1989. World War II: US and Japanese Naval Strategies. Colin S. Gray

and Roger Barnett, eds. Seapower and Strategy. London: Tri-service Press.

Buckley, John. 1999. Air Power in the Age of Total War. London: UCL Press.

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Drea, Edward. 1986. In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese

Army. Lincoln: University Press of Nebraska.

Kershaw, Ian. 2007. Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-

1941. New York: The Penguin Press.

Searle, Thomas R. 2002. 'It Made a Lot of Sense to Kill Skilled Workers': The

Firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945. Journal of Military History 66: 103-134.

Citino, Robert M. 1999. The Path to Blitzkrieg: Doctrine and Training in the German

Army, 1920-1939. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Condell, Bruce and David T. Zabecki, eds. 2001. On the German Art of War:

Truppenführung. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Corum, James. 1992. The Roots of Blitzkrieg, Hans von Seeckt and German Military

Reform, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.

Doughty, Robert. 1990. The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940.

Hamden, CT: Archon Books.

Frieser, Karl-Heinz. 2005. The Blitzkrieg Legend. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.

Gunsberg, Jeffery. 1979. Divided and Conquered: The French High Command and the

Defeat of the West, 1940. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Guderian, Heinz. 2001. Panzer Leader. Da Capo: 89-113.

Harris, J.P. 1995. Men, Ideas, and Tanks: British Military Thought and Armoured

Forces, 1903-1939. Manchester: University of Manchester Press.

Horne, Alistair. 1969. To Lose a Battle: France 1940. Boston: Little, Brown and

Company.

Kiesling, Eugenia. 1996. Arming Against Hitler: France and the Limits of Military

Planning. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas: 116-135.

Kier, Elizabeth. 1995. Culture and Military Doctrine: France between the Wars.

International Security (Spring): 65-93. [Porch, Douglas, 2000. ‟Culture‟ and the Fall of

France in 1940. In International Security (Spring): 157-180. Review of Kier, Imagining

War: French and British Military Doctrine between the Wars.]

Manstein, Erich von, 2004. Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant

General. Zenith.

May, Ernest R. 2000. Strange Victory. New York: Hill and Wang: 448-464.

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Mosier, John. 2003. The Blitzkrieg Myth: How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic

Realities of World War II. New York: Perennial.

Murray, Williamson. 1984. The Change in the European Balance of Power, 1938-39.

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Posen, Barry. 1989. The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany

Between the World Wars. Ithaca: Cornell: 13-79, 220-244.

Rommel, Irvin. France 1940. B.H. Liddell Hart, ed. Rommel Papers. Da Capo.

Winton, Harold. 1988. To Change an Army: General Sir John Stuart-Burnett and British

Armor Doctrine, 1927-1938. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press.

9. NAVAL WARFARE: THEORY AND PRACTICE


Blouet, Brian. 2004. The imperial vision of Halford Mackinder. Geographical Journal

(December): 322-329.

Crowl, Philip. 1986. Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Naval Historian. Peter Paret, ed. Makers

of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Princeton: Princeton University

Press: 444-477.

Gouch, Barry. 1988. Maritime Strategy: The Legacies of Mahan and Corbett as

Philosophers of Sea Power. RUSI Journal (Winter): 55-62.

James, D. Clayton. 1986. American and Japanese Strategy in the Pacific War. Peter



Kennedy, Paul. 1983. Strategy and Diplomacy 1870-1945, Boston: Allen & Unwin: 41-

85.

Sloan, Geoffrey. 1999. Sir Halford Mackinder: the heartland theory then and now. Colin

S. Gray and Geoffrey Sloan, eds. Geopolitics, geography and strategy. London: Frank

Cass: 15–38.

Till, Geoffrey. 2004. Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century. London: Frank

Cass: 25-75.

b. Recommended Readings (Atlantic Campaign Case Study)

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Cohen, Eliot, and John Gooch. 1990. Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in

War. New York: Free Press: 59-94.

Milner, Marc. 1990. The Battle of the Atlantic. The Journal of Strategic Studies (March):

45-66.

Murray, Williamson, and Allan R. Millett. 2000. A War To Be Won. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press.

White, David Fairbank. 2006. Bitter Ocean: The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945. New

York: Simon & Schuster.

Williams, Andrew. 2008. The Battle of the Atlantic: Hitler's Gray Wolves of the Sea and

the Allies' Desperate Struggle to Defeat Them. New York: Basic Books.


Baer, George W. 1994. One Hundred Years of Seapower: The U.S. Navy, 1890–1990.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Barlow, Jeffrey G. 1994. Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945–

1950. Washington: Naval Historical Center.

Bassford, Christopher. 1994. Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in

Britain and America, 1815-1945. New York: Oxford University Press: 94-103.

Fry, Robert Alan. 1999. End of the Continental Century. U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings

(March): 40-43. Available online:

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live

Gat, Azar. 2001. A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold

War. New York: Oxford University Press: 472-493.

Gooch, John. 1989. Maritime Command: Mahan and Corbett. Colin S. Gray and Roger

Barnett, eds. Seapower and Strategy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.

Halpern, Paul G. 1994. A Naval History of World War I. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.

Hattendorf, John, 1995. Alfred Thayer Mahan and American Naval Theory. In Keith

Neilson and Elizabeth Jane Errington, eds. Navies and Global Defense: Theories and

Strategy. Westport, CT: Praeger: 51-67.

Hobson, Rolf. 2002. Imperialism at Sea: Naval Strategic Thought, the Ideology of Sea

Power and the Tirpitz Plan, 1875–1914. Boston: Brill.

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Macris, Jeffery R. 1995. Is Mahan Relevant? U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings (May):

72-76.

Millett, Allan R. 1996. Assault from the Sea: The Development of Amphibious Warfare

between the Wars. The American, British, and Japanese Experiences. Williamson Murray

and Allan Millet, eds. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period. Cambridge, MA:

Cambridge University Press: 50-95.

Miller, Edward. 1991. War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897–1945.

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.

Morison, Samuel E. 1963. The Two Ocean War: A Short History of the United States

Navy in the Second World War. Boston: Little, Brown.

Schurman, D. M. 1965. The Education of a Navy: The Development of British Naval

Strategic Thought, 1867-1914. Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 147-184.

Spector, Ronald. 1984. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan. New

York: Free Press.

Sumida, Jon Tetsuro. 1997. Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command: The

Classic Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan Reconsidered. Washington: Woodrow Wilson

Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press.

Symonds, Craig. 1984. Alfred Thayer Mahan. Geoffrey Till, ed. Maritime Strategy and

the Nuclear Age. New York: St. Martin's Press: 28-33.

Weigley, Russell F. 1973. The American Way of War. New York: Macmillan: 269-311.

10. AIR POWER

a. Required Readings

Boyne, Walter J. 1994. In Clash of Wings: Air Power in World War II. New York, Simon

& Schuster: 282-320.

Drew, Dennis M. 1998. U.S. Airpower Theory and the Insurgent Challenge: A Short

Journey to Confusion. Journal of Military History 62 (October): 809-32.

Johnson, David. 1998. Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation in the U.S. Army.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

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MacIsaac, David. 1986. Voices from the Central Blue: The Air Power Theorists. Peter



Murray, Williamson. Did Strategic Bombing Work? Robert Cowley, ed. No End Save

Victory: Perspectives on World War II. New York: Berkley: 494-512.

Warden, John. 1995. The Enemy as a System. Airpower Journal (Spring): 40-55.

c. Recommended Readings (Doctrine Turned Dogma: The Combined Bomber

Offensive)

Biddle, Tami Davis. 2002. Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British

and American Ideas About Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton


McFarland, Stephen L. 1995. America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910-1945.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press: 165-190.

Murray, Williamson, and Allan R. Millett. 2000. A War To Be Won. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press: 304-35.

Overy, R. J. 1991. The Air War, 1939-1945. Chelsea, MI: Scarborough House: 102-126.

Saward, Dudley. 1987. Victory Denied: The Rise of Air Power and the Defeat of

Germany, 1920-45. New York: Franklin Watts: 227-363.

f. Additional Readings

Clodfelter, Mark. 1984. Pinpointing Devastation: American Air Campaign Planning

before Pearl Harbor. Journal of Military History (58).

Crane, Conrad C. 1993. Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in

World War II. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.

Douhet, Giulio. 1998. The Command of the Air. Washington: Air Force History and

Museums Program.

Futrell, Robert F. 1989. Air Force Thinking and World War II. Ideas, Concepts,

Doctrine. Volume 1, Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force, 1907-1960. Maxwell

AFB, AL: Air University Press: 127-189.

Gentile, Gian P. 2000. How Effective Is Strategic Bombing?: Lessons Learned From

World War II to Kosovo. New York: New York University Press.

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Hosmer, Stephen T. 2001. The Conflict Over Kosovo: Why Milosevic Decided to Settle

When He Did. Santa Monica, CA: RAND.

Kennett, Lee. 1982. A History of Strategic Bombing. New York: Charles Scribner„s Sons.

Lambeth, Benjamin S. 2001. NATO's Air War for Kosovo: A Strategic and Operational

Assessment. Santa Monica: RAND.

Levine, Alan J. 1992. The Strategic Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945. New York:

Praeger.

Matloff, Maurice. 1986. Allied Strategy in Europe, 1939-1945. Peter Paret, ed. Makers of


Press: 677-702.

McFarland, Stephen L. 1995. America‘s Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910-1945.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Messenger, Charles. 1984. "Bomber" Harris & the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939-

1945. New York, St. Martin's Press.

Mets, David R. and William P. Head, eds. 2003. Plotting a True Course: Reflections on

USAF Strategic Attack Theory and Doctrine, the Post-World War II Experience.

Westport, CT: Praeger.

Olsen, John Andreas. 2003. Strategic Air Power in Desert Storm. London: Frank Cass.

Putney, Diane T. 2004. Airpower Advantage: Planning the Gulf War Air Campaign,

1989-1991. Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program.

Schaffer, Ronald. 1985. Wings of Judgment: American Bombing in World War II. New

York: Oxford University Press.

Searle, Thomas R. 2002. 'It Made a Lot of Sense to Kill Skilled Workers': The

Firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945. Journal of Military History (66): 103-134.

Sherry, Michael S. 1987. The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon.

New Haven: Yale University Press.

Ullman, Harlan K. and James P. Wade. 1996. Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid

Dominance. Washington: Center for Advanced Concepts and Technology.

Werrell, Kenneth P. 1996. Blankets of Fire: U.S Bombers over Japan during World War

II. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

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11. STAMINA AND WILL AS A CoG: ASYMMETRIC WAR


Bacevich, Andrew. 2008. Military Crisis. The Limits of Power: The End of American

Exceptionalism. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Creveld, Martin van. 2008. The Changing Face of War: Combat from the Marne to Iraq,

2008. New York: Ballantine: 226-30, 235, 268-9.

Zambernardi, Lorenzo. 2010. Counterinsurgency's Impossible Trilemma. The

Washington Quarterly (July): 21-34.

b. Recommended Readings (“Strategic Dissonance” and VIETNAM)

Hess, Gary. 2009. Vietnam: Explaining America‘s Lost War. Malden, MA: Blackwell

Publisher.

Krepinevich, Andrew. 1986. The Army and Vietnam. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins

University Press.

Record, Jeffrey, and W. A. Terrill. 2004. Iraq and Vietnam: Differences, Similarities, and

Insights. Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College.

Spector, Ronald. 2010. Measuring Defeat: Imponderables of the American Experience in

Vietnam. In Malcolm Murfett, ed. Imponderable but Not Inevitable. Santa Barbara:

Praeger.

Summers, Harry. 1984. On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War. New York:

Dell Publishing Company.

Truong, Nhu Tang. 1985. Vietcong Memoir. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Press.


Caldwell, Charles. 1976. Small Wars—Their Principles and Practices. East Ardsley, UK:

EP Publishing Ltd.

Cohen-Almagor. 1991. The Intifada Causes, Consequences and Future Trends. Small

Wars and Insurgences (April).

Cohen, Sturat, and Efraim Inbar. 1991. Varieties of Counter-insurgency Activities:

Israel‟s Military Operations Against the Palestinians, 1948-90. Small Wars and

Insurgences (April).

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Creveld, Martin van. 1991. The Transformation of War. New York: The Free Press.

Duiker, William. 2004. Ho Chi Minh: Myth and Reality. Christopher E. Goscha and

Benoît de Tréglodé, eds. Naissance d'un État-Parti: Le Viêt Nam depuis 1945/The Birth

of a Party-State: Vietnam since 1945. Paris: les Indes Savantes: 117-133.

Guevara de la Serna, Ernesto. 1961. Che Guevara on Guerrilla Warfare. New York:

Praeger.

Gwynn, MG Charles W. 1934. Imperial Policing. Global War on Terrorism, Occasional

Paper 2. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute. Originally published London:

MacMillan & Co. Limited, 1934.

Hammes, Thomas X. 2004. The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century. St.

Paul, MN: Zenith.

Hammond, Grant. 1991. Strategic Decisions: The Mire of Low Intensity Conflict.

Comparative Strategy (10).

Kitson, Frank. 1971. Low Intensity Operations: Subversion, Insurgency, and

Peacekeeping. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books.

Lansdale, Edward G. 1972. In the Midst of Wars: An American‘s Mission to Southeast

Asia. New York: Harper & Row.

Lawrence, T.E. 1991. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph. New York: Anchor Books.

Lewis, Bernard. 2003. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror. New York:

Modern Library.

Linn, Brian M. 2000. The Philippine War, 1899-1902. Lawrence: University Press of

Kansas.

Mao Tse-Tung. 1960. On Protracted War. Beijing: Foreign Language Press.

Metz, Steven. 2004. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq. Washington Quarterly 27

(Winter): 25-36. Available online: www.twq.com/04winter/docs/04winter_metz.pdf

Nagl, John. 2002. Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to

Eat Soup with a Knife. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Porch, Douglas. 1986. Bugeaud, Galliéni, Lyautey: The Development of French colonial

warfare. Peter Paret, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear

Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 376-407.

http://www.twq.com/04winter/docs/04winter_metz.pdf

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Russian General Staff. 2002. The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and

Lost. Lester W. Grau and Michael Gress, trans. and eds. Lawrence: University of Kansas

Press.

Sorley, Lewis. 1999. A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of

America‘s Last Years in Vietnam. New York: Harcourt, Inc.

Thompson, Robert. 1966. Defeating Communist Insurgency: The Lessons of Malaya and

Vietnam. New York: Praeger.

Trinquier, Roger. 1964. Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency. Trans.

by Daniel Lee. New York: Praeger.

THE ANALYSIS OF DEFENCE AND SECURITY POLICIES

Foundational Readings

Ken Booth (ed.), Statecraft and Security: The Cold War and Beyond (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Alan Collins (ed.), Contemporary Security Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press,

2007).

Bernard I. Finel and Kristin M. Lord (eds.), Power and Conflict in the Age of

Transparency (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).

Colin S. Gray, War Peace and Victory: Strategy and Statecraft for the Next Century

(New York, London: Simon and Schuster, 1990).

Colin S. Gray, Modern Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Michael C. Horowitz, The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for

International Politics (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010).

Thomas G. Mahnken and Joseph A. Maiolo (eds.), Strategic Studies: A Reader (London

and New York: Routledge, 2008).

John A. Vasquez and Marie T. Henehan (eds.), The Scientific Study of Peace and War: A

Text Reader (Lanham: Lexington Books, 1999).

1. THE MEANING OF SECURITY

a. Readings

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John Baylis and Steve Smith (eds.), The Globalization of World Politics (Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2008).

Christopher Coker, Globalisation and Insecurity in the Twenty-first Century: NATO and

the Management of Risk, Adelphi Paper no. 345 (London: The International Institute for

Strategic Studies, 2002).

Alan Collins (ed.), Contemporary Security Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press,

2007).

Sheldon W. Simon (ed.), The Many Faces of Asian Security (Lanham: Rownan &

Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001).

Andrew T H Tan and J D Kenneth Boutin (eds.), Non-traditional Security Issues in

Southeast Asia (Singapore: Select Publishing for Institute of Defence and Strategic

Studies, Nanyang Technological University, 2001).

Peter Van Ness, Globalization and Security in East Asia (Canberra: Department of

International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian

National University, 2000).

2. IDENTIFYING THE NATIONAL INTEREST

a. Readings (political and military geography)

John M. Collins, Military Geography for Professionals and the Public (Washington, DC:

Brassey's, 1998).

Klaus Dodds and David Atkinson (eds.), Geopolitical Traditions: critical histories of a

century of political thought (London: Routledge, 2000).

Emily O. Goldman, “Thinking About Strategy Absent the Enemy”, Security Studies, Vol.

4, No. 1, 1994, pp. 40-85.

Colin S. Gray, War Peace and Victory: Strategy and Statecraft for the Next Century

(New York, London: Simon and Schuster, 1990).

Colin S. Gray, “Geography and Grand Strategy”, Comparative Strategy, Vol. 10, No. 4,

1991, pp. 311-330.

Colin S. Gray, “The Continued Primacy of Geography”, Orbis, Vol. 40, No. 2, 1996, pp.

247-259.

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Colin S. Gray and Geoffrey Sloan (eds.), Geopolitics, Geography and Strategy (London

and Portland: Frank Cass, 1999).

Nurit Kliot and Stanley Waterman (eds.), The Political Geography of Conflict and Peace

(London: Belhaven Press, 1991).

Patrick O‟Sullivan, Terrain and Tactics (New York, Westport, and London: Greenwood

Press 1991).

Patrick O‟Sullivan and Jesse W. Miller, The Geography of Warfare (London: Croom

Helm, 1983).

Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space (London:

Routledge, 1996).

David Pepper and Alan Jenkins (eds.), The Geography of Peace and War (Oxford:

Blackwell, 1985).

Michael Don Ward (ed.), The New Geopolitics (Philadelphia: Gordon & Breach, 1996).

b. Readings (strategic culture)

Desmond Ball, Strategic Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region (with some implications for

regional security cooperation (Canberra: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre,

Australian National University, 1993).

Ken Booth, Strategy and Ethnocentrism (London: Croom Helm, 1979).

Ken Booth and Russell Trood (eds.) Strategic Cultures in the Asia-Pacific Region (New

York: St. Martin‟s Press, 1999).

Michael C. Desch, “Culture Clash: Addressing the Importance of Ideas in Security

Studies”, International Security, vol. 23, No. 1, 1998, pp. 141-170.

Valerie M. Hudson (ed.), Culture and Foreign Policy (Boulder and London: Lynne

Rienner Publishers, 1997).

Alastair Iain Johnston, “Thinking About Strategic Culture”, International Security, Vol.

19, No. 4, 1995, pp. 32-64.

Peter J. Katzenstein (ed.), The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World

Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).

Elizabeth Kier, “Culture and Military Doctrine”, International Security, Vol. 19, No. 4,

1995, pp. 65-93.

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Yitzhak Klein, “A Theory of Strategic Culture”, Comparative Strategy, Vol. 10, No. 1,

1991, pp. 3-23.

Yaacov Y.I. Vertzberger, The World In Their Minds: Information Processing, Cognition,

and Perception in Foreign Policy Decision-Making (Stanford: Stanford University Press,

1990).

3. SECURING THE NATIONAL INTEREST

a. Readings

Michael I. Handel, War, Strategy and Intelligence (London and Totowa, N.J.: Frank

Cass, 1989).

Robert Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton, New

Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1976).

Peter Karsten, Peter D. Howell, and Artis Frances Allen, Military Threats: A Systematic

Historical Analysis of the Determinants of Success (Westport and London: Greenwood,

1984).

Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Uri Ra'anan, and Warren Milberg (eds.), Intelligence Policy and

National Security (London: Macmillan, 1981).

Richard Rosecrance and Arthur A. Stein (eds.), The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy

(Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1993).

4. MAINTAINING A FRIENDLY STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT

a. Readings

Arnold Wolfers, Discord and Collaboration: Essays on International Politics (Baltimore:

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1962):

„Chapter 2: Amity & Enmity among Nations‟

„Chapter 5: The Goals of Foreign Policy‟ [Find out what the author labels

possession and milieu goals.]

Ralph A. Cossa, “Asia Pacific Confidence and Security Building Measures”, in Ralph A.

Cossa (ed.), Asia Pacific Confidence and Security Building Measures (Washington DC:

Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1995), pp.1-18.

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Amitav Acharya, Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the

roblem of Regional Order (London: Routledge, 2001).

Muthiah Alagappa (ed.), Asian Security Order (Stanford: Stanford University Press,

2003).

Ann Florini, „The End of Secrecy‟, in Bernard I. Finel and Kristin M. Lord (eds.), Power

and Conflict in the Age of Transparency (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), pp.13-

28.

Heidi H. Hobbs (ed.), Pondering Postinternationalism – A Paradigm for the Twenty-First

Century (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000).

Donald Weatherbee, with Ralf Emmers, Mari Pangestu, and Leonard C. Sebastian,

International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy (New York:

Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).

Peter Van Ness, Globalization and Security in East Asia (Canberra: Department of

International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian

National University, 2000).

5. BUILDING THE MILITARY INSTRUMENT

a. Readings

Robert J. Art, “To What Ends Military Power?”, International Security, Vol. 4, No. 4,

1980, pp. 3-35.

Bernard Brodie, “On the Objectives of Arms Control”, International Security, Vol. 1, No.

1, 1976, pp. 17-36.

Bruce Bueno de Muesquita, The War Trap (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981).

Hedley Bull, “Arms Control and World Order”, International Security, Vol. 1, No. 1,

1976, pp. 3-16.

Nancy Gallagher, “Bridging the Gaps on Arms Control”, Contemporary Security Policy,

Vol. 18, No. 2, 1997, pp. 1-24.

Barry Buzan and Eric Herring, The Arms Dynamic in World Politics Boulder and

London: Lyne Rienner Publishers.

Norman A. Graham (ed.), Seeking Security and Development: The Impact of Military

Spending and Arms Transfers (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994).

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Colin S. Gray, House of Cards: Why Arms Control Must Fail (Ithaca and London:

Cornell University Press, 1992).

Colin S. Gray, Weapons Don't Make War: Policy, Strategy, & Military Technology

(Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1993).

Dan Reiter, “Exploding the Powder Keg Myth: Preemptive Wars Almost Never Happen”,

International Security, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1995, pp. 5-34.

6. DETERRENCE AND COERCION

a. Readings

Richard K. Betts, “The Concept of Deterrence in the Postwar Era”, Security Studies, Vol.

1, No. 1, 1991, pp. 25-36.

Stephen J. Cimbala, Military Persuasion: Deterrence and Provocation in Crisis and War

(University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994).

Lawrence Freedman, Deterrence (Cambridge: Polity, 2004).

Gary L. Guertner, Deterrence and Defense in a Post-Nuclear World (New York: St.

Martin‟s Press, 1990).

Richard J. Harknett, “The Logic of Conventional Deterrence and the End of the Cold

War”, Security Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1994, pp. 86-114.

Samuel P. Huntington, “Conventional Deterrence and Conventional Retaliation in

Europe”, International Security, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1983/84, pp. 32-56.

Paul K. Huth, Extended Deterrence and the Prevention of War (New Haven and London:

Yale University Press, 1988).

Paul K. Huth, “Reputations and Deterrence: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment”,

Security Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1997, pp. 72-99.

Robert Jervis, Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein, Psychology and Deterrence

(Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985).

Eli Lieberman, “The Rational Deterrence Theory Debate: Is the Dependent Variable

Elusive?”, Security Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1994, pp. 384-427.

Edward N. Luttwak, Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace (Cambridge, Massachusetts,

and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1987).

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John J. Mearsheimer, Conventional Deterrence (Ithaca and London: Cornell University

Press, 1983)

Jonathan Mercer, Reputation and International Politics (Ithaca and London: Cornell


Michael Nicholson, Rationality and the Analysis of International Conflict (Cambridge

and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Glenn H. Snyder, Deterrence and Defense: Toward a Theory of National Security

(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961).

7. OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE STRATEGY AND THE PROBLEM OF

PRE-EMPTION

a. Readings

Gordon Akavia, “Defensive Defense and the Nature of Armed Conflict”, Journal of

Strategic Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1991, pp. 27-48.

Anders Boserup and Robert Neild (eds.), The Foundations of Defensive Defence

(London: Macmillan, 1990).

A. Butfoy, “Offence-Defence Theory and the Security Dilemma: The Problem with

Marginalizing the Context”, Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1997.

Charles L. Glaser and Chaim Kaufmann, “What is the Offense-Defense Balance and Can

We Measure It?”, International Security, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1998, pp. 44-82.

Bjorn Møller, Common Security and Nonoffensive Defensive Defense: A Neorealist

Perspective (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers; London: University College London

Press, 1992).

Bjorn Møller and Håkan Wiberg (eds.), Non-Offensive Defence for the Twenty-First

Century (London and Boulder: Westview Press, 1994).

Steven Van Evera, “The Cult of the Offensive and the Origins of the First World War”,

International Security, Vol. 12, No. 4, 1984, pp. 58-107.

Steven Van Evera, “Offense, Defense, and the Causes of War”, International Security,

Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 5-43.

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8. Non-State Actors in International Security & the Military Implications of

Global Information Space

a. Readings

Daphne Josselin and William Wallace, „Non-State Actors in World Politics: a

Framework‟, in Non-State Actors in World Politics (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan,

2001), pp.1-20.

Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in

International Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998), ch. 1.

Thomas K. Adams, “Private Military Companies: Mercenaries for the 21st Century”,

Small Wars & Insurgencies, 13 no.2 (2002), 54 - 67.

James Glanz and Andrew W. Lehren, “The Iraq War Logs: Private Armies a Savior and

Menace”, International Herald Tribune 25 October 2010.

Alan Collins (ed.), Contemporary Security Studies, 2ed, (Oxford: Oxford University

Press, 2010).

General Sir Michael Rose, „The Media and International Security‟, in Stephen Badsey

(ed.), The Media and International Security (London: Frank Cass, 2000), pp.3-10.

Frank Webster, „Information warfare in an Age of Globalization‟, in Daya Kishan Thussu

and Des Freedman (eds.) War and the Media: Reporting Conflict 24/7 (London and New

Delhi: Sage and Vistaar Publications, 2003), pp.57-69. Alternatively, read Alan Chong,

Foreign Policy in Global Information Space: Actualizing Soft Power (New York:

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Chapter 2.

Piers Robinson, The CNN Effect: The Myth of News, Foreign Policy and Intervention

(London: Routledge, 2002), Chapter One: The CNN Effect Reconsidered, pp.7-24.

9. PARTICIPATING IN UN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS AND OTHER

OPERATIONS OTHER THAN WAR [OOTW]

a. Readings

Erwin A. Schmidl, „The Evolution of Peace Operations from the Nineteenth Century‟ in

Erwin a. Schmidl (ed.) Peace Operations between War and Peace (London: Frank Cass,

2000), pp.4-20.

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Richard Barrett, „Contesting the Neutral Space: A Thematic Analysis of Military

Humanitarianism‟, Land Warfare Studies Centre Working Paper Series, no. 137

(Canberra: The Australian Army, 2010).

Michel Agier and Francoise Bouchet-Saulnier, „Humanitarian Spaces: Spaces of

Exception‟, in Fabrice Weissman (ed.) In the Shadow of ‗Just Wars‘: Violence, Politics

and Humanitarian Action (London: Hurst & Company & Medecin sans Frontieres,

2004), pp.297-313.

Alex J. Bellamy and Nicholas J. Wheeler, „Humanitarian Intervention in world politics‟,

in John Baylis, Steve Smith, Patricia Owens (eds.) The Globalization of World Politics,

4th edition (Oxford: OUP, 2008), pp 522-538.

Gustav Daniker, „Intervention as a Challenge for the Military‟ in Michael Keren and

Donald A. Sylvan (eds.) International Intervention: Sovereignty versus Responsibility

(Portland: Frank Cass, 2002), pp.114-125.

Nathan Hodge, Armed Humanitarians: The Rise of the Nation Builders (New York:

Bloomsbury Press, 2011), „Chapter 4: The Other War‟. Useful journalistic insights into

the „DIY‟ and improvised nature of Provincial Reconstruction Teams and the

transformation of both soldiers and diplomats, as well as on-the-spot NGO actors.

Warren P. Strobel, Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media‘s Influence on Peace

Operations (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1997), „Chapter 3:

Reporting the New Story: the News Media and Peace Operations.‟

United Nations, Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations (United

Nations: Geneva, 2000), pp. viii-xv, 54-58.

Thomas G. Weiss, David P. Forsythe, Roger A. Coate, Kelly-Kate Pease, The United

Nations and Changing World Politics 6th

ed. (Boulder, CO: Westwood Press, 2007), part

1.

10. CRISIS AND INSECURITY

a. Readings

Richard K. Betts, Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises (Cambridge, Massachusetts,

and London: Harvard University Press, 1977).

Richard K. Betts, “Surprise Attack: NATO‟s Political Vulnerability”, International

Security, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1981, pp. 117-149.

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Richard K. Betts, Surprise Attack: Lessons for Defense Planning. Washington, D.C.: The

Brookings Institution, 1982.

Richard K. Betts, Measuring Military Readiness: Analytical Complexity and Policy

Confusion. In Security Studies 1/3, 1992: 483-513.

Richard K. Betts, Military Readiness: Concepts, Choices, Consequences. Washington,

D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1995.

Raymond Cohen, Threat Perception in International Crisis (Madison: University of

Wisconsin Press, 1979).

Alexander L. George (ed.), Avoiding War: Problems of Crisis Management (Oxford:

Westview Press, 1991).

Irving L. Janis, Crucial Decisions: Leadership in Policymaking and Crisis Management

(New York: Free Press; London: Collier MacMillan, 1989).

Richard Ned Lebow, Between Peace and War: The Nature of International Crisis

(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981).

Jonathan M. Roberts, Decision-making during International Crises (Basingstoke:

Macmillan, 1988).

Thomas Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard


Roberta Wohlstetter, Pearl Harbour: Warning and Decision (Stanford, CA: Stanford


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