One of the most distinguished books of military history ever written, The American Way of War has provided countless readers with a firm understanding of the evolution of U.S. military strategy and policy -- adapted from introduction.

Reprint of the ed. published by Macmillan, New York, in series: The Wars of the United States.

A strategy of attrition : George Washington --A strategy of partisan war : Nathan Greene -- The Federalists and Jeffersonians -- The age of Winfield Scott -- The founding of American Strategic Studies : Dennis Hart Mahan and Henry Wager Halleck -- Napoleonic strategy : R.E. Lee and the Confederacy -- A strategy of annihilation : U.S. Grant and the Union -- Annihilation of a people : the Indian fighters -- A strategy of sea power and empire : Stephen B. Luce and Alfred Thayer Mahan -- Strategy and the Great War of 1914—1918 -- A strategy of air power : Billy Mitchell -- A strategy for Pacific Ocean War : naval strategists of the 1920s and 1930s -- The strategic tradition of A.T. Mahan : strategists of the Pacific War -- The strategic tradition of U.S. Grant : strategists of the European War -- The atomic revolution -- Old strategies revisited : Douglas MacArthur and George C. Marshall in the Korean War -- Strategies of deterrence and of action : the strategy of intellectuals -- Strategies of action attempted : to the Vietnam War.