Elements of Military Strategy

ARCHER JONES is Professor Emeritus of History and a former dean at North Dakota State University. He is the author of Confederate Strategy from Shiloh to Vicksburg (1961), The Art of War in the Western World (1987), and Civil War Command and Strategy (1992) and joint author of Politics of Command, Factions and Ideas in Confederate Strategy (1973), How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War (1983), and Why the South Lost the Civil War (1986). He has served as Morrison Professor of History at the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, member of the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee, and trustee of the American Military Institute.

• Preface Introduction Operations Within a Base Area The English Colonists' Warfare against the Native Americans The United States in the Second Seminole War The United States in the Great Sioux War Operations from a remote Base Area The Commerce-Raiding War in the Atlantic, 1940-1945 Air Warfare in Northwestern Europe 1940-1945 The Allied Western Europe Campaign 1944-1945 The United States in the Pacific in World War II The Strategy of the Korean War The Persian Gulf Conflict of 1990-1991 Operations with a Mixture of Base Area Access The United States in Vietnam Some Unifying Elements Political Aspects The Principles of War and Some Related Ideas Some Factors Affecting Strategic Choice and Outcomes Appendix: Weapons and Strategy in the Twentieth Century