推荐阅读:
Clausewitz, Carl von. "The Influence of Clausewitz." On War. Edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976, pp. 27-44.
Note: All scholars of security affairs should own this book. If you do not wish to own this book, you must copy these pages and read them.
———. "War Plans." On War. Edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976, Book 8, pp. 577-637.
Note: All scholars of security affairs should own this book. If you do not wish to own this book, you must copy these pages and read them.
Bassford. "Clausewitz and His Works." Chapter 2 in Clausewitz in English. pp. 9-33.
Liddell-Hart. Strategy. Chapter XIX, pp. 319-323.
Posen. Sources of Military Doctrine. Chapter 1, pp. 13-33.
Geographical Position and National Power
Kennedy. The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery. Chapter 7, pp. 177-202.
Kennedy. "The First World War and The International Power System." pp. 7-40.
Posen. Sources of Military Doctrine. Chapter 2, pp. 34-41, 59-80.
Recommended
Weigley. "A Strategy of Sea Power and Empire." Chapter 9 in The American Way of War. pp. 167-191. Supplements the preceding.
Military Technology
Howard. "Men Against Fire." In Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War. pp. 41-57.
Howard. War in European History. Chapter 4, pp. 54-74.
Irvine. "The Origin of Capital Staffs." pp. 161-179.
Posen. Sources of Military Doctrine. pp. 41-59.
Vagts. History of Militarism. pp. 323-359.
Travers. "Technology, Tactics, and Morale: Jean de Bloch, the Boer War and British Military Theory, 1900-1914." pp. 264-286.
Carr. "The Third Period." In Nationalism and After. pp. 17-26.
Stern. "Why do People Sacrifice for Their Nations?" In Perspectives on Nationalism and War. pp. 99-121.
Hayes. "Nationalism and International War," and "Nationalism and Militarism." In Essays on Nationalism. pp. 126-155, 187- 195.
Paret. "Nationalism and the Sense of Military Obligation."
Posen. "Nationalism, the Mass Army, and Military Power."
Van Evera. "Hypotheses on Nationalism and War." pp. 5-39.
Farrar, Jr. "Villain or Scapegoat? Nationalism and the Outbreak of World War I."
Williamson. "The Domestic Context of Habsburg Foreign Policy." Chapter 2 in Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War . pp. 13-33.
George. Case Studies and Theory Development. pp. 43-68.
Lijphart. "Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method." pp. 682-693.
———. "The Comparable Cases Strategy in Comparative Research."
Levy. "Too Important To Leave to the Other." International Security 22, no. 1 (Summer 1997): 22-33.
Haber, Kennedy and Krasner. "Brothers Under the Skin…" International Security 22, no. 1 (Summer 1997): 34-43.
Gaddis. "History, Theory and Common Ground…" International Security (Summer 1997): 75-85.
Posen. The Sources of Military Doctrine.
Read the Preface, and Chapters 2 and 7, but read them after you read the methodology articles, and with an eye to how methodological problems were solved, or not. You can skim as much of the rest of the book as you wish.
Paret. "The History of War and the New Military History." In Understanding War. pp. 209-226.
