Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; General introduction; On strategy; About this volume; Notes; Part I: The uses of strategic theory; Introduction; Study questions; Further reading; 1. Strategic studies and the problem of power; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Notes; 2. What is a military lesson?; Extracting military lessons; Fallacies and receptivity: linear projection; Fallacies and receptivity: the significant exception; Ex post facto lessons; Notes; 3. Why strategy is difficult; The argument; Why so difficult?; Further thoughts; Notes. Part II: Interpretation of the classicsIntroduction; Study questions; Further reading; 4. Who is afraid of Carl von Clausewitz?: A guide to the perplexed; Book 2: On the Theory of War; Book 1: On the Nature of War; Book 3: On Strategy in General; Book 4: The Engagement; Book 5: Military Forces; Book 6: Defense; Book 7: The Attack; Book 8: War Plans; 5. "The art of war"; I. Laying plans; II. Waging war; III. Attack by stratagem; IV. Tactical dispositions; V. Energy; VI. Weak points and strong; VII. Maneuvering; VIII. Variation in tactics; IX. The army on the march; X. Terrain. XI. The nine situationsXII. The attack by fire; XIII. The use of spies; 6. Strategy: the indirect approach; Aim of strategy; Action of strategy; 7. Arms and influence; The diplomacy of violence; The contrast of brute force with coercion; Coercive violence in warfare; The nuclear contribution to terror and violence; From battlefield warfare to the diplomacy of violence; Notes; Part III: Instruments of war, intelligence and deception; Introduction; Study questions; Further reading; 8. Some principles of maritime strategy; Natures of wars-offensive and defensive. Natures of wars-limited and unlimitedLimited war and maritime empires-development of Clausewitz's and Jomini's theory of a limited territorial object, and its application to modern imperial conditions; Notes; 9. Kosovo and the great air power debate; Air power and coercion: clarifying the debate; Defining coercion; Coercion as a dynamic process; Thinking synergistically; The uncertain meaning of "success"; Conclusions for the study of air power; NATO goals and Kosovo outcomes; Coercive air power and Kosovo; Fostering discontent by striking strategic targets. The destruction of Serbian armed forcesThe prospect of a ground campaign; The threat from the KLA; Serbia's inability to inflict costs on NATO; Imposing casualties; Propagandizing collateral damage; Disrupting NATO unity; Air power and counter-counter-coercion; Kosovo and the future use of air power; Notes; 10. What's wrong with the intelligence process?; Inherent limits of intelligence; Trends in the quality of intelligence; The design of an ideal intelligence system; Formal structure of a well-constructed intelligence system; Information norms and incentives in the intelligence community.

The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. The aim is to provide students with a wide-ranging survey of the key issues in strategic studies, and to provide an introduction to the main ideas and themes in the field. The book contains six extensive sections, each of which is prefaced by a short i.