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Acknowledgments 8
Preface 13
Part I. The logic of strategy 15
1. The Conscious Use of Paradox in War 17
The Costs of Surprise 19
Risk 21
Friction 22
The Prevalence of Paradoxical Action 27
2. The Logic in Action 30
Culmination and Reversal 34
Measures and Countermeasures 42
3. Efficiency and the Culminating Point of Success 46
Strategy versus Economics 53
Descending the Curve: From Success to Failure 56
Protecting the Fleet: Overdoing Success 58
The Failure of Success 61
4. The Coming Together of Opposites 64
From War to Peace, from Peace to War 71
The Advent of the Postheroic Era 82
The Defeat of Victory 94
Part II. The levels of strategy 101
5. The Technical Level 107
The War of the Weapons 108
Soldiers and Technicians 111
Political Masters and Technicians 115
6. The Tactical Level 117
Leadership, Morale, Fortune 118
Offense-Defense Asymmetries 120
The Limits of the Tactical 123
7. The Operational Level 126
Attrition and Maneuver in War 127
National Styles in Policy and War 131
Blitzkrieg: The Rewards and Risks of Relational Maneuver 135
The Case Study Resumed 145
Attrition and Maneuver in Peacetime Military Policy 149
A First Vision of Strategy Whole 151
8. Theater Strategy I: Military Options and Political Choices 153
Europe's Central Front during the Cold War Years 155
Offense-Defense Force Ratios 157
Battlefield Nuclear Weapons 159
9. Theater Strategy II: 162
Nonterritorial Warfare 167
Point Defense 169
10. Theater Strategy III: Interdiction and the Surprise Attack 174
Interdiction as a Substitute for Depth 176
Artillery and Air Interdiction 177
Deep Interdiction Schemes 179
The Fragility of Consecutive Systems 182
11. Nonstrategies: Naval, Air, Nuclear 184
Space and Mobility 185
The Contents of Nonstrategy 187
Claims of Autonomy: Sea Power 188
Strategic Bombardment 190
Air Defense 192
The Advent of Nuclear Weapons 195
Nuclear Autonomy Diminished I: Subversion 196
Nuclear Autonomy Diminished II: Inhibition and Retaliation 198
The Excessive Weapon 200
12. The Renaissance of Strategic Air Power 202
Assessing What Happened 204
Guided and Unguided Air Weapons 207
Bombing "Morale" 211
Why Precision Bombing Is Different 213
Structuring an Optimal Air Campaign-in Theory 216
Air Campaigns in Practice 217
Evaluating Offensive Air Power 221
Part III. Outcomes: grand strategy 224
13. The Scope of Grand Strategy 226
Strategy in International Politics 226
Linear Goals in a Paradoxical Medium 228
The Case of Arms Control 231
14. Armed Suasion 235
Diplomacy, Propaganda, and Deception 237
"National Will" 238
The Paradoxical Logic in Armed Suasion 241
Second-Strike Attack as a Paradoxical Remedy 242
Patterns of Suasion 242
Nuclear Dissuasion in Europe 246
Asymmetrical Nuclear Suasion 249
15. Harmony and Disharmony in War 253
Interpenetrations 255
Vertical Success and Horizontal Failure 258
The Limits of Interpenetration 262
Victory and Defeat in Two Dimensions 264
The Rewards of Harmony 268
16. Can Strategy Be Useful? 277
Appendix A. Definitions of Strategy 286
Appendix B. The Gulf War Air Campaign 291
Appendix C. Instant Thunder 309
Notes 311
1. The Conscious Use of Paradox in War 311
2. The Logic in Action 311
3. Efficiency and the Culminating Point of Success 314
4. The Coming Together of Opposites 318
5. The Technical Level 320
7. The Operational Level 321
8. Theater Strategy I 323
9. Theater Strategy II 325
10. Theater Strategy III 329
11. Nonstrategies 330
12. The Renaissance of Strategic Air Power 333
13. The Scope of Grand Strategy 337
14. Armed Suasion 337
15. Harmony and Disharmony in War 339
Works cited 342
Index 352
Interaktywny spis treści 362