James Lacey - Great Strategic Rivalries: From the Classical World to the Cold War

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lacey, James, 1958- editor.

Title: Great strategic rivalries : from the classical world to the Cold War /edited by James Lacey.

Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016008635 (print) | LCCN 2016039666 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780190620462 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190620479 () | ISBN 9780190620486

Subjects: LCSH: Strategic rivalries (World politics)History. | Strategic rivalries (World politics)Case studies. | BISAC: HISTORY / World. | HISTORY / Military / General. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.

Classification: LCC JZ5595 .G74 2016 (print) | LCC JZ5595 (ebook) | DDC 327.1dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016008635

James H. Anderson serves as the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Marine Corps University. He is currently coauthoring a book on US policy toward China. Dr. Anderson earned his doctorate in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Kathleen M. Burk was educated at Berkeley and Oxford, where she was also the Rhodes Fellow for North America and the Caribbean. She is Professor Emerita of Modern and Contemporary History at University College London. The author or editor of nearly a dozen books, including Old World, New World: Britain and America from the Beginning (Little Brown, 2007), she is currently writing a book on the interaction of the British and American empires from 1783 to 1972. She also writes on wine.

Robert M. Citino is a Professor of Military History at the University of North Texas. He is the author of nine books, including the award-winning The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 (University Press of Kansas, 2012). He has taught at the US Military Academy and the US Army War College.

Kelly De Vries is Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland and Honorary Historical Consultant of the Royal Armouries, UK. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of twenty-two books and more than eighty articles on medieval military history and technology.

Kenneth W. Harl is Professor of Classical and Byzantine History at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he teaches courses in Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Crusader history. He is the author of Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, 180275A.D. (University of California Press, 1987) and Coinage in Roman Economy, 300B.C.700 A.D. (Johns Hopkins Press, 1996).

James Lacey is the Professor of Strategy at the Marine Corps War College. He is the author of numerous books, most recently The First Clash (Bantam, 2013), Pershing (Palgrave, 2012), and The Moment of Battle (Bantam, 2015). His book on political, military, and economic disputes in Washington, DC, during World War II is forthcoming.

Michael V. Leggiere is Assistant Professor and Deputy Director, Military History Center, University of North Texas, and author of Napoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813 (Oxford University Press, 2002); The Fall of Napoleon, Vol. I: The Allied Invasion of France, 18131814 (Cambridge, 2007); and Blcher: Scourge of Napoleon (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014).

William M. Morgan is the Professor of Diplomacey and Statecraft at the Marine Corps War College. Previously, he earned a PhD in diplomatic history from the Claremont Graduate University in California, then served over thirty years in the Foreign Service of the US Department of State. He is the author of Pacific Gibraltar: U.S.-Japanese Rivalry over the Annexation of Hawaii, 18851898 (Naval Institute Press, 2011).

Williamson Murray is a Professor Emeritus of History from Ohio State University. He has written a wide selection of articles and books, most recently Making of Peace: Rulers, States, and the Aftermath of War, which he edited with James Lacey (Cambridge University Press, 2009); The Shaping of Grand Strategy, Policy, Diplomacy, and War, which he edited with Richard Sinnreich and James Lacey (Cambridge University Press, 2011); and Hybrid Warfare, coedited with Peter Mansoor (Cambridge University Press, 2012). At present he has the following completed manuscripts: A Savage War, A Military History of the Civil War, coauthored with Wayne Hsieh (scheduled for publication by Princeton University Press in 2016); When Great Captains Fight, coauthored with James Lacey (scheduled for publication by Random House in 2017); and Grand Strategy and Coalition Warfare (scheduled for publication by Cambridge University Press in 2016).

S. C. M. Paine is the William S. Sims Professor of History and Grand Strategy at the US Naval War College. She has authored The Wars for Asia 19111949 (Leopold prize and PROSE award) (Cambridge University Press, 2012), The Sino-Japanese War of 18941895 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier (Jelavich prize) (M. E. Sharpe, 1996); coedited with Bruce A. Elleman a series of books on naval operations, including blockades, commerce raiding, peripheral operations, coalitions, and non-military missions; and cowritten with him Modern China: Continuity and Change 1644 to the Present (Prentice Hall, 2010). She is working on a history of the Cold War.

Geoffrey Parker is the Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History and an Associate of the Mershon Center at The Ohio State University, was born in Nottingham, and has written or cowritten thirty-nine books, including