West Point History of Warfare

Author and Chapter Title List

Chapter

Background

Author

Chapter Title

H301

Introduction

Ty Seidule & Clifford J. Rogers

Introduction

1

2

3

4

Eugenia C. Kiesling

Clifford J. Rogers

Clifford J. Rogers

Peter H. Wilson

War in Greece and Rome

Early and High Medieval Warfare

Warfare in the Late Middle Ages

The Military Revolution and the Thirty Years' War


Wars of the State

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

John A. Lynn II

John M. Stapleton, Jr.

Jamel Ostwald

Peter H. Wilson

Dennis Showalter

Wayne E. Lee

Fred Anderson

The French Army of Louis XIV to 1688

British Military Developments to 1700

The War of the Spanish Succession

The War of Austrian Succession

The Seven Years' War in Europe

Early Imperial Encounters in North America

The Seven Years' War in North America and Beyond


Emergence of National Wars

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

Edward G. Lengel

Edward G. Lengel

Stephen Conway

Stephen Conway

Tim Blanning

Frederick C. Schneid

Alexander Mikaberidze

John H. Gill

David Gates

John Lawrence Tone

The Origins of the American Revolution and Opening Moves

From Defeat to Victory in the North: 1777–1778

The War in Georgia and the Carolinas

Yorktown, the Peace, and Why the British Failed

The French Revolutionary Wars

The Rise of Napoleon

Ulm to Austerlitz

Apogee of the Grand Armeé

The Oceans, the Peninsula, and the Invasion of Russia

The Guerrilla War: Spain, 1808-1814


Consolidation of National Wars

22

23
 

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

32

33

34

35

Michael V. Leggiere

Clifford J. Rogers
 

Samuel Watson

Joseph G. Dawson III

Mark E. Neely Jr.

Joseph T. Glatthaar

Joseph T. Glatthaar

Stephen E. Woodworth

Earl J. Hess

James K. Hogue

Robert Wooster

Dennis Showalter

Geoffrey Wawro

Graham A. Cosmas

Europe Defeats Napoleon

Interpreting Napoleon: Clausewitz, Jomini, and Restoration Armies (Coming Soon)

Warfare and the American Nation-State, 1783–1845

The U.S.-Mexican War

Origins and Opening Moves of the American Civil War

The War in the East, July 1861–September 1862

Seeking Decision in the East, November 1862–August 1863

Grant's War in the West

Coordinated Strategy and Hard War

The End of the War and the Army in Reconstruction

The American Army in the West, 1865–1897

European Military Development, 1848–1871

The European Balance of Power and the Colonial Wars

An American Empire


National Wars

H302

36

37

38

39

40

41

42

43

44

45

46

 

Edward J. Drea

Hew Strachan

Michael Neiberg

Hew Strachan

John Morrow

Robert Foley

Robert Bruce

Robert Bruce

Michael Neiberg

Eugenia C. Kiesling

Eugenia C. Kiesling

 

 

The Russo-Japanese War, 1904–1905

Europe's Path to World War

1914: Strategies, War Plans, and Opening Moves

Stalemate and Response, 1914–1915

The Global War in 1915

1916: Industrial War and Battles of Attrition

Political Challenges and Strategic Reevaluation, 1917

1918: The Year of Decision

WWI: Overwhelming the Germans and Victory

The Continental Powers in the Interwar Period

The United Kingdom, Japan, and United States in the Interwar Period

47

48

49

Robert Citino

Richard J. Overy

Geoffrey Megargee

German Years of Victory

Britain Stands Alone

The Germans Turn East: Operation Barbarossa and the Beginnings of the Final Solution

50

51

52

53

54

55

56

57

Edward J. Drea

Robert Citino

Richard J. Overy

Richard J. Overy

Robert Citino

Robert Citino

Robert Love

Steve R. Waddell

Japan Strikes: From Pearl Harbor to Midway

The Allies Turn the Tide

Peoples and Economies at War

Strategic Seapower and Airpower

Waging Global War

Victory in Europe

Defeat of Japan

Occupation, Demobilization, and Assessing Victory


Cold War and Korea

58

59

60

Jonathan M. House

Allan R. Millett

Allan R. Millett

The Cold War 1945–1973: Containment and the Nuclear Era

The Korean Civil War and American Intervention, 1945–1950

Fighting and Ending the Korean Conflict


People's Wars

61

62

63

64

65

66

Mark Atwood Lawrence

George Gawrych

Mark Atwood Lawrence

Gregory Daddis

Gregory Daddis

James H. Willbanks

The Wars of Decolonization

From Israeli Blitzkrieg to Machdal (The Blunder)

Revolutionary War in Southeast Asia, 1954–1965

American Escalation in Vietnam, 1965–1967

American De-escalation in Vietnam, 1968–1972

Victory and Defeat in Vietnam


Enduring Wars

67

Gail E. S. Yoshitani

Encountering and Responding to Limits: The Superpowers in the Cold War, 1968–1991

68

69

70

71

Conrad C. Crane

George Gawrych

Gian P. Gentile

Lester Grau & Clifford J. Rogers

Peace Dividends and Benevolent Interventions

People's Wars and Israel, 1982–2006

Three Iraq Wars: 1980–2011

Afghanistan: Thirty-Five Years of War and Counting