Strategy

The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition

By: Edward N. Luttwak

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Paperback | 31 January 2002 | Edition Number 2

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If you want peace, prepare for war. A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive. The worst road may be the best route to battle.

Strategy is made of such seemingly self-contradictory propositions, Edward Luttwak shows--they exemplify the paradoxical logic that pervades the entire realm of conflict.

In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Luttwak unveils the peculiar logic of strategy level by level, from grand strategy down to combat tactics. Having participated in its planning, Luttwak examines the role of air power in the 1991 Gulf War, then detects the emergence of "post-heroic" war in Kosovo in 1999--an American war in which not a single American soldier was killed.

In the tradition of Carl von Clausewitz, "Strategy" goes beyond paradox to expose the dynamics of reversal at work in the crucible of conflict. As victory is turned into defeat by over-extension, as war brings peace by exhaustion, ordinary linear logic is overthrown. Citing examples from ancient Rome to our own days, from Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor down to minor combat affrays, from the strategy of peace to the latest operational methods of war, this book by one of the world's foremost authorities reveals the ultimate logic of military failure and success, of war and peace.

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Non-Fiction Warfare & Defence Military & Defence Strategy Military Tactics Fiction Action & Adventure War, Combat & Military Adventure Fiction History General & World History War & Defence Operations Politics & Government

Preface	p. xi
The Logic of Strategy	p. 1
The Conscious Use of Paradox in War	p. 3
The Logic in Action	p. 16
Efficiency and the Culminating Point of Success	p. 32
The Coming Together of Opposites	p. 50
The Levels of Strategy	p. 87
The Technical Level	p. 93
The Tactical Level	p. 103
The Operational Level	p. 112
Theater Strategy I: Military Options and Political Choices	p. 138
Theater Strategy II: Offense and Defense	p. 147
Theater Strategy III: Interdiction and the surprise Attack	p. 158
Nonstrategies: Naval, Air, Nuclear	p. 168
The Renaissance of Strategic Air Power	p. 185
Outcomes: Grand Strategy	p. 207
The Scope of Grand Strategy	p. 209
Armed Suasion	p. 218
Harmony and Disharmony in War	p. 234
Can Strategy Be Useful?	p. 258
Definitions of Strategy	p. 267
The Gulf War Air Campaign	p. 271
Instant Thunder	p. 279
Notes	p. 281
Works Cited	p. 299
Index	p. 304
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