The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital

contents
Acknowledgments 
Contributors
Introduction: The Indispensable Art: Three Generations of
Makers of Modern Strategy 
Hal Brands

part one Foundations and Founders
1 Strategy: The History of an Idea 
Lawrence Freedman

2 Thucydides, Polybius, and the Legacies of the Ancient World 
Walter Russell Mead

3 Sun Zi and the Search for a Timeless Logic of Strategy 
Toshi Yoshihara

4 Machiavelli and the Naissance of Modern Strategy 
Matthew Kroenig

5 The Elusive Meaning and Enduring Relevance of Clausewitz
Hew Strachan

6 Jomini, Modern War, and Strategy: The Triumph of the Essential

Antulio J. Echevarria II

7 Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Strategy of Sea Power

John H. Maurer

8 Kant, Paine, and Strategies of Liberal Transformation
Michael Cotey Morgan

9 Alexander Hamilton and the Financial Sinews of Strategy 
James Lacey

10 Economic Foundations of Strategy: Beyond Smith, Hamilton,and List 
Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner

part two Strategy in an Age of Great-Power Rivalry 

11 Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin: French Strategies of Equilibrium
in the Seventeenth Century
Iskander Rehman

12 Generational Competition in a Multipolar World: William III and André-Hercule
de Fleury
Matt J. Schumann

13 Napoleon and the Strategy of the Single Point 
Michael V. Leggiere

14 John Quincy Adams and the Challenges of a Democratic Strategy 
Charles Edel

15 Strategic Excellence: Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederacy 
Kori Schake

16 Francis Lieber, the Laws of War, and the Origins of the Liberal International Order 
Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh

17 Japan Caught between Maritime and Continental Imperialism 
S.C.M. Paine

18 Strategies of Anti-Imperial Resistance: Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, and Fanon 
Priya Satia

part three Strategy in an Age of Global War 

19 Strategy, War Plans, and the First World War 
Margaret MacMillan

20 The Strategy of Decisive War versus the Strategy of Attrition 
Williamson Murray

21 Strategy and Total War 
Williamson Murray

22 Woodrow Wilson and the Rise of Modern American Grand Strategy 
Robert Kagan

23 Democratic Leaders and Strategies of Coalition Warfare:Churchill and Roosevelt in World War II 
Tami Davis Biddle

24 The Hidden Hand of History: Toynbee and the Search for World Order 
Andrew Ehrhardt and John Bew

25 Strategies of Geopolitical Revolution: Hitler and Stalin 
Brendan Simms

26 Mao Zedong and Strategies of Nested War 
S.C.M. Paine

part four Strategy in a Bipolar Era 

27 Nuclear Strategy in Theory and Practice: The Great Divergence 
Eric S. Edelman

28 The Elusive Nature of Nuclear Strategy 
Francis J. Gavin

29 Limited War in the Nuclear Age: American Strategy in Korea
Daniel Marston

30 Ben-Gurion,Nasser, and Strategy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict 
Guy Laron

31 Nehru and the Strategy of Non-Alignment 
Tanvi Madan

32 Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara: Theory Over History and Expertise 
Mark Moyar

33 Strategies of Détente and Competition: Brezhnev and Moscow’s Cold War 
Sergey Radchenko

34 Arms Competition, Arms Control, and Strategies of Peacetime Competition from Fisher to Reagan 
Thomas G. Mahnken

part five Strategy in the Post-Cold War World 

35 Dilemmas of Dominance: American Strategy from George H.W. Bush to Barack Obama 
Christopher J. Griffin

36 The Two Marshals: Nikolai Ogarkov, Andrew Marshall, and the Revolution in Military Affairs 
Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky

37 Strategies of Counterinsurgency and Counter-Terrorism after 9/11 
Carter Malkasian

38 Strategies of Jihad: From the Prophet Muhammad to Contemporary Times 
Ahmed S. Hashim

39 Xi Jinping and the Strategy of China’s Restoration 
Elizabeth Economy

40 Soleimani, Gerasimov, and Strategies of Irregular Warfare 
Seth G. Jones

41 The Strength of Weakness: The Kim Dynasty and North Korea’s Strategy for Survival 
Sue Mi Terry

42 Strategies of Persistent Conflict: Kabila and the Congo Wars 
Jason K. Stearns

43 Strategy and Grand Strategy in New Domains 
Joshua Rovner

44 A Revolution in Intelligence 
Thomas Rid

45 Grammar, Logic, and Grand Strategy 
John Lewis Gaddis

Index 

Hal Brands is the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs in the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

Charles Edel is a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and previously served on the U.S. Secretary of State's policy planning staff.