The new makers of modern strategy: From the ancient world to the digital age

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Notes

¹ Edward Mead Earle (ed.), Makers of Modern Strategy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1943).

² Peter Paret (ed.), Makers of Modern Strategy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1986).

³ Hal Brands (ed.), The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press 2023).

⁴ Beatrice Heuser, Strategy before Clausewitz: Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400–1830 (Abingdon: Routledge 2017); id., The Strategy Makers: Thoughts on War and Society from Machiavelli to Clausewitz (Santa Monica, CA: ABC Clio 2010); Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Beatrice Heuser (eds), The Cambridge History of Strategy, Vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press expected 2024).

⁵ Maurizio Recordati Koen, ‘The “Stuff of Strategy” How Sublime Strategics Turned into a Real Thing’, The RUSI Journal 168/1–2 (2023), 1–11.

⁶ Whom amongst less famous (because non-European) strategists we included in the RUSI podcast series ‘Talking Strategy’.

⁷ Edward Luttwak, The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Boston, MA: Harvard University Press 2011).

⁸ Clifford Rogers, War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327–1360 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press 2000).

⁹ For this and many other thinkers not included in this volume, see Beatrice Heuser, The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010).

¹⁰ Malik Mufti, The Art of Jihad: Realism in Islamic Political Thought (State University of New York 2019); Malik Mufti, ‘”The Art of Jihad” on the Anon: Mukhtasar Siyasat al-Hurub’, History of Political Thought 28/2 (Summer 2007), 189–207.

¹¹ See for example Victor Davis Hanson (ed.), Makers of Ancient Strategy from the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome (Princeton, RI: Princeton University Press 2011).

¹² See Maurizio Viroli, ‘Arming the Citizen: Machiavelli’s Quest for Virtue’, Talking Strategy Podcast, accessed 2 November 2023, https://www.rusi.org/podcasts/talking-strategy/episode-6-arming-citizens-machiavellis-quest-virtue.

¹³ Carl Schmitt, Der Begriff des Politischen, 1st edn. 1932, 2nd edn. 1963, repr. (Berlin: Duncker & Humblodt 1996), 32, 37, 50f.

¹⁴ Lawrence Freedman, Strategy: A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013).

¹⁵ Christopher Yung, ‘The PLA Navy Lobby and Its Influence over China’s Maritime Sovereignty Policy’, in Phillip Saunders and Andrew Scobell (eds.), The PLA Influence in National Security Policy Making (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 2015).

¹⁶ John Andreas Olsen and Colin Gray (eds.), The Practice of Strategy from Alexander the Great to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011).

¹⁷ Beatrice Heuser, ‘Ordinances and Articles of War before the Lieber Code, 866–1863: The Long Pre-History of International Humanitarian Law’, Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 21 (2018), 139–64.

¹⁸ Jean-Jacques Langendorf, Faire la Guerre: Antoine Henri Jomini, Vol. 2 (Paris: Georg Editeur 2004).

¹⁹ Beatrice Heuser, Reading Clausewitz (London: Pimlico 2002), 22.

²⁰ For excerpts of his writing, see Beatrice Heuser (ed.), The Strategy Makers: Thoughts on War and Society from Machiavelli to Clausewitz (Santa Barbara: Greenwood-Praeger 2010), 62–86.

²¹ Heuser, Strategy before Clausewitz, chapters 3, 4, 5.

²² John Stone, ‘Montesquieu: Strategist ahead of his time’, Journal of Strategic Studies (2023), 1–22.

²³ Beatrice Heuser, ‘Guibert (1744–1790): Prophet of Total War?’, in Stig Förster & Roger Chickering (ed.), War in an Age of Revolution: The Wars of American Independence and French Revolution, 1775–1815 (Cambridge University Press 2010), 49–67. For excerpts of his writings, translated into English, see Heuser (ed.), The Strategy Makers, 147–70.

²⁴ Headquarters, Department of the Army, FM 3–24, Counterinsurgency (Washington, DC), accessed 2 November 2023, http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/Repository/Materials/COIN-FM3-24.pdf.

²⁵ The title is thus a little misleading, even though intelligence is crucial in identifying such actions.