Masters of war : History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers
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Compact discs.
"Course no. 9422."
Disc 1. Lecture 1. Why strategy matters -- Lecture 2. Thucydides on strategy -- Disc 2. Lecture 3. Thucydides as a possession for all time -- Lecture 4. Sun Tzu's The art of war -- Disc 3. Lecture 5. Sun Tzu through time -- Lecture 6. Machiavelli's The art of war -- Disc 4. Lecture 7. Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy -- Lecture 8. The Napoleonic revolution in war -- Disc 5. Lecture 9. Baron Jomini as a strategist -- Lecture 10. Clausewitz's On war -- Disc 6. Lecture 11. Jomini and Clausewitz through the ages -- Lecture 12. From sail to steam--the sea-power revolution -- Disc 7. Lecture 13. Alfred Thayer Mahan -- Lecture 14. Sir Julian Corbett -- Disc 8. Lecture 15. Mahan, Corbett, and the Pacific War -- Lecture 16. Air power in theory and practice -- Disc 9. Lecture 17. From rolling thunder to instant thunder -- Lecture 18. Nuclear strategy -- Disc 10. Lecture 19. Mao Tse-tung in theory and practice -- Lecture 20. Classics of counterinsurgency -- Disc 11. Lecture 21. Just-war theory -- Lecture 22. Terrorism as strategy -- Disc 12. Lecture 23. Strategies of counterterrorism -- Lecture 24. From the jaws of defeat--strategic adaptation.
Lecturer, Andrew R. Wilson, U.S. Naval War College.
"This course, Masters of War, borrows its title and takes its inspiration from the pathbreaking work of comparative strategic analysis pioneered by ... Michael I. Handel"--p.vi.
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PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 12 sound discs (720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 193 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
159803880X
9781598038804
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Teaching Company.
SUBJECTS
Thucydides.
Sunzi, -- active 6th century B.C.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, -- 1469-1527.
Mao, Zedong, -- 1893-1976.
Jomini, Antoine Henri, -- baron de, -- 1779-1869.
Clausewitz, Carl von, -- 1780-1831.
Mahan, A. T. -- 1840-1914.
War -- Strategic aspects.
Battles -- History.
Military history, Ancient.
Armies -- History.
Military art and science -- History.
Strategy -- History.
Tactics -- History.
Naval strategy.
Naval battles -- History.
Sea-power.
Air power.
War and society -- History.
Military history, Modern.
Terrorism.
Nuclear warfare.