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

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