Strategic studies : a reader / edited by Thomas G. Mahnken and Joseph A. Maiolo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Uses of Strategic Theory -- Strategy as a Science / Bernard Brodie -- Strategic Studies and the Problem of Power / Lawrence Freedman -- What is a Military Lesson? / William C. Fuller -- Interpretation of the Classics -- The Art of War / Sun Tzu -- Strategy: The Indirect Approach / Basil Liddell Hart -- Arms and Influence / Thomas C. Schelling -- Instruments of War: Land, Sea, and Air Power -- J.F.C. Fuller's Theory of Mechanized Warfare / Brian Holden Reid -- Some Principles of Maritime Strategy / Julian Corbett -- Air Power and the Origins of Deterrence Theory Before 1939 / Richard J. Overy -- Kosovo and the Great Air Power Debate / Daniel L. Byman and Matthew C. Waxman -- Nuclear Strategy --The Absolute Weapon / Bernard Brodie -- The Delicate Balance of Terror/ Albert Wohlstetter -- Irregular Warfare and Small Wars -- Science of Guerrilla Warfare / T.E. Lawrence -- Problems of Strategy in China's Civil War / Mao Tse Tung -- Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice / David Galula -- Why Big Nations Lose Small Wars: The Politics of Asymmetric Conflict / Andrew Mack -- Countering Global Insurgency / David J. Kilcullen -- Strategic Terrorism: The Framework and its Fallacies / Michael Smith and Peter Neumann -- Future Warfare, Future Strategy -- Cavalry to Computer: The Patterns of Military Revolutions / Andrew F. Krepinevich -- From Kadesh to Kandahar: Military Theory and the Future of War / Michael Evans -- Why Strategy is Difficult / Colin S. Gray -- The War on Terror in Historical Perspective / Adam Roberts -- The Lost Meaning of Strategy / Hew Strachan.