The American Way of War
A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy

Russell F. Weigley (Author)

9780253280299

Paperback / softback, published 22 January 1960

608 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 3.1 cm, 0.88 kg

" . . . a strong and stimulating book. It has no rival in either scope or quality. For libraries, history buffs, and armchair warriors, it is a must. For political science students, career diplomats, and officers in the armed services, its reading should be required." —History
"A particularly timely account." —Kansas City Times
"It reads easily but is not a popularized history . . . nor does the book become a history of battles. . . . Weigley's analyses and interpretations are searching, competent, and useful." —Perspective

Introduction
Part One: Waging War With Limited Resources, 1775-1815
1 A Strategy of Attrition: George Washington
2 A Strategy of Partisan War: Nathanael Greene
3 The Federalists and the Jeffersonians
Part Two: Young America as a Military Power, 1815-1890
4 The Age of Winfield Scott
5 The Founding of American Strategic Studies: Dennis Hart Mahan and Henry Wager Halleck
6 Napoleonic Strategy: R.E. Lee and the Confederacy
7 A Strategy of Annihilation: U.S. Grant and the Union
8 Annihilation of a People: The Indian Fighters
Part Three: Introduction to World Power, 1890-1941
9 A Strategy of Sea Power and Empire: Stephen B. Luce and Alfred Thayer Mahan
10 Strategy and the Great War of 1914-1918
11 A Strategy of Air Power: Billy Mitchell
12 A Strategy for Pacific Ocean War: Naval Strategists of the 1920s and 1930s
Part Four: American Strategy in Global Triumph, 1941-1945
13 The Strategic Tradition of A.T. Mahan: Strategists of the Pacific War
14 The Strategic Tradition of U.S. Grant: Strategists of the European War
Part Five: American Strategy in Perplexity, 1945-
15 The Atomic Revolution
16 Old Strategies Revisited: Douglas MacArthur and George C. Marshall in the Korean War
17 Strategies of Deterrence and of Action: The Strategy Intellectuals
18 Strategies of Action Attempted: To the Vietnam War
Notes
Select Bibliography of American Writings on Military Strategy, Theoretical, and Historical
Index