Strategic Logic and Political Rationality

Introduction, Bradford A. Lee and Karl F. Walling. Part 1 Strategic logic: strategy in war and sports - a comparison, David E. Kaiser; what is a military lesson?, William C. Fuller, Jr.; why the weak win - strong powers, weak powers and the logic of strategy, Thomas G. Mahnken; attrition in modern and post-modern war, Avi Kober; "Sunzi bingfa" as history and theory, Andrew Meyer and Andrew Wilson; policy, strategy and operations, Milan Vego. Part 2 Political rationality: Thucydides on democratic politics and civil-military relations, Karl F. Walling; winning without fighting - British grand strategy and its application to the United States, 1815-65, Andrew Lambert; British strategy and winning the great war, David French; the architecture and soft spots of Israeli grand strategy, Gil Merom; winning the war but losing the peace? the United States and the strategic issues of war termination, Bradford A. Lee; Clauzewitz and the two contemporary military revolutions - RMA and RAM, James C. Kurth.