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.

• PrefaceIntroductionOperations Within a Base AreaThe English Colonists' Warfare against the Native AmericansThe United States in the Second Seminole WarThe United States in the Great Sioux WarOperations from a remote Base AreaThe Commerce-Raiding War in the Atlantic, 1940-1945Air Warfare in Northwestern Europe 1940-1945The Allied Western Europe Campaign 1944-1945The United States in the Pacific in World War IIThe Strategy of the Korean WarThe Persian Gulf Conflict of 1990-1991Operations with a Mixture of Base Area AccessThe United States in VietnamSome Unifying ElementsPolitical AspectsThe Principles of War and Some Related IdeasSome Factors Affecting Strategic Choice and OutcomesAppendix: Weapons and Strategy in the Twentieth Century