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Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command **ISBN: 9780801863400**
Jon Tetsuro Sumida

Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2000

Expectation, adaptation, and resignation: British battle fleet tactical planning, August 1914-April 1916.: An ...
Jon Tetsuro Sumida

Thomson Gale, 2007

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Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach to On War (Modern War Studies)

1 review
Jon Tetsuro Sumida

University Press of Kansas, 2008

An Archaeology of the Mind that Created "On War"
Sumida begins with the observation that Clasusewitz has remained inscrutable to most readers in spite of the fact that he is more widely read today than ever before, especially within the U.S. military. Modern understanding of Clausewitz is plaugued by "faulty preconceptions," ignorance of history, a failure to grasp Clausewitz's philosophical sophistication, and the complexity of his ...

In Defence of Naval Supremacy

3 reviews
Jon Tetsuro Sumida

Routledge, 1989

An interesting take
Very interesting book on "financial limitation, technological innovation and British naval policy." (I'm quoting the title because a previous reviewer apparently didn't bother to read it, then trashed the book because it wasn't what it was "supposed" to be about.) Absolutely necessary to understand the Royal Navy in the time of the First World War and immediately before. The book splits its focus ...

Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command: The Classic Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan Reconsidered (Woodrow ...

5 reviews
Jon Tetsuro Sumida

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

Mahan in Full
There is no more prominent name - American or otherwise - in naval theory and grand strategy than Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914). The only more enduring name in strategic studies today is that of the Prussian master, Carl von Clausewitz. Unfortunately, like Clausewitz, Mahan's work is rarely read in the original; instead, his ideas are summarized and conveyed in secondary sources or, worse ...