| Description |
12 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
The great courses. History. Civilization & culture
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The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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Title from container. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Professor Andrew R. Wilson. |
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Compact disc. |
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In container (17 cm.). |
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The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures. |
| Summary |
This course delivers an inside look at both the content and historical context of the world's greatest war strategists. Professor Wilson discusses the subtleties and complexities of strategy and reveals how nations and military leaders have adapted to the dynamic realm of fog, friction, and chance. |
| Contents |
Lecture 1. Why strategy matters -- Lecture 2. Thucydides on strategy -- Lecture 3. Thucydides as a possession for all time -- Lecture 4. Sun Tzu's The art of war -- Lecture 5. Sun Tzu through time -- Lecture 6. Machiavelli's The art of war -- Lecture 7. Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy -- Lecture 8. The Napoleonic revolution in war -- Lecture 9. Baron Jomini as a strategist -- Lecture 10. Clausewitz's On war -- Lecture 11. Jomini and Clausewitz through the ages -- Lecture 12. From sail to steam -- the sea-power revolution -- Lecture 13. Alfred Thayer Mahan -- Lecture 14. Sir Julian Corbett -- Lecture 15. Mahan, Corbett, and the Pacific War -- Lecture 16. Air power in theory and practice -- Lecture 17. From rolling thunder to instant thunder -- Lecture 18. Nuclear strategy -- Lecture 19. Mao Tse-tung in theory and practice -- Lecture 20. Classics of counterinsurgency -- Lecture 21. Just-war theory -- Lecture 22. Terrorism as strategy -- Lecture 23. Strategies of counterterrorism -- Lecture 24. From the jaws of defeat -- strategic adaptation. |
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GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Military art and science -- History.
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War -- History -- Strategic aspects.
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Military biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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Teaching Company.
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Recorded Books, LLC.
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| Added Title |
History's greatest thinkers |
| ISBN |
9781490659503 |
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1490659501 |
| Music No. |
GC0022 Recorded Books |
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9422 Teaching Co. |
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