Strategy and the limitation of war

Survival

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-54

  Strachan, Hew ^a  

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DOI: 10.1080/00396330801899470     Document Type: Article

References (35)

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2. Wellington to Somerset, 5 January 1838, Wellington papers, Southampton University Library; he made a similar observation to the House of Lords on 16 January 1838: 'A great country cannot wage a little war'.
3. Ian Kershaw, Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941 (London: Allen Lane, 2007), p. 147.
4. Philip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History (London: Penguin, 2002), p. 21.
5. Ibid., Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred (London: Allen Lane, 2006).
6. Jean-Jacques Langendorf, Faire la Guerre: Antoine-Henri Jomini, 2 vols (Geneva: Georg, 2001-04)
7. Peter Paret, Clausewitz and the State (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976)
8. Andreas Herberg-Rothe, Clausewitz's Puzzle: The Political Theory of War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
9. Hew Strachan, Carl von Clausewitz's On War: A Biography (London: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007).
10. Brian Holden Reid, J.F.C. Fuller: Military Thinker (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987)
11. Brian Bond, Liddell Hart: A Study of his Military Thought (London: Cassell, 1977)
12. Aleksandr A. Svechin, Strategy, ed. Kent D. Lee (Minneapolis, MN: East View Publishers, 1992; first published 1927).
13. John Mueller, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War (New York: Basic Books, 1989)
14. Michael Mandelbaum, 'Is Major War Obsolete?', Survival, vol. 40, no. 4, Winter 1998-99, pp. 20-38
15. Donald Kagan, Eliot A. Cohen, Charles F. Doran and Michael Mandelbaum, 'Is Major War Obsolete?: An Exchange', Survival, vol. 41, no. 2, Summer 1999, pp. 139-52.
16. Bobbitt, Shield of Achilles, pp. 24, 38-9.
17. Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwartz, 'No New World Order: America after the Cold War', Current, December 1993
18. quoted in Bobbitt, Shield of Achilles, p. 251.
19. Simon Tisdall, 'Bush's Plan to Spend Away the Terror', Guardian, 24 October 2007.
20. DoD News Briefing with Secretary Rumsfeld and Adm. Giambastiani, 1 February 2006, http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/ transcript.aspx?transcriptid=905.
21. Ann Scott Tyson, 'Ability to Wage "Long War" is Key to Pentagon Plan', Washington Post, 4 February 2006, p. A01, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/03/ AR2006020301853.html.
22. Simon Tisdall and Ewe MacAskill, 'America's Long War', Guardian, 15 February 2006, http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/ 0,,1710062,00.html.
23. Wylie, Military Strategy, p. 91.
24. Quoted by Jay Luvaas, The Education of an Army: British Military Thought 1815-1940 (London: Cassell, 1965), p. 244
25. see also G.F.R. Henderson, The Science of War, ed. Neill Malcolm (London: Longmans Green, 1919), p. 343.
26. Michael R. Gordon, 'U.S. Command Shortens Life of "Long War" as a Reference', New York Times, 24 April 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/washington/24policy.html
27. Richard Lardner, 'Message-minded Admiral ditches "Long War"', The Tampa Tribune, 19 April 2007.
28. Robert E. Osgood, Limited War Revisited (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1979), p. 27.
29. Stephen Peter Rosen, 'Vietnam and the American Theory of Limited War', International Security, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall 1982, pp. 83-113.
30. Hew Strachan, Clausewitz's On War: A Biography (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007), pp. 168-9
31. Jan Willem Honig, 'Clausewitz's On War: Problems of Text and Translation', in Hew Strachan and Andreas Herberg Rothe, Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 61-9.
32. Osgood, Limited War Revisited, pp. 48-9.
33. Carl von Clausewitz, On War, trans. and ed. Michael Howard and Peter Paret (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976), book I, chapter 1, p. 89.
34. On the definitional difficulties, see Robert Mandel, The Meaning of Military Victory (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2006), pp. 139-42.
35. Colin Powell, with Joseph Persico, My American Journey (New York: Random House, 1995), pp. 207-8.