Background
Jones, Archer was born on October 14, 1926 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of Montgomery Osborne and Helen Rutherfoord (Johnston) Jones.
( The Politics of Command reevaluates the continual contr...)
The Politics of Command reevaluates the continual controversy over strategy that occurred between Jefferson Davis and his high command, and within the command itself. Thomas Lawrence Connelly and Archer Jones illustrate how Davis' decisions were affected by officers in the field, politicians, the considerable clout of the western bloc and its network of informal associations, the input of Robert E. Lee, the pressure brought to bear by P.G.T. Beauregard, and Davis' own changing concept of the departmental command system. Connelly and Jones were the first to realize that any significant assessment of Davis' strategy must examine those who influenced him, for his key decisions were products of the politics of command.
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("The magnum opus of one of America's most respected milit...)
"The magnum opus of one of America's most respected military historians, "The Art of War in the Western World" has earned its place as the standard work on how the three major operational components of war - tactics, logistics, and strategy - have evolved and changed over time. This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of military history, from infantry combat in ancient Greece through the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the Thirty Years' War and from the Napoleonic campaigns through World War II, which Jones sees as the culmination of modern warfare, to the Israeli-Egyptian War of 1973".
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( In this widely heralded book first published in 1986, f...)
In this widely heralded book first published in 1986, four historians consider the popularly held explanations for southern defeat--state-rights disputes, inadequate military supply and strategy, and the Union blockade--undergirding their discussion with a chronological account of the war's progress. In the end, the authors find that the South lacked the will to win, that weak Confederate nationalism and the strength of a peculiar brand of evangelical Protestantism sapped the South's ability to continue a war that was not yet lost on the field.
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( In Why the South Lost the Civil War, four historians co...)
In Why the South Lost the Civil War, four historians considered the dominant explanations of southern defeat. At end, the authors found that states' rights disputes, the Union blockade, and inadequate southern forces did not fully account for the surrender. Rather, they concluded, the South lacked the will to win. Its strength sapped by a faltering Confederate nationalism and weakened by a peculiar brand of evangelical Protestantism, the South withdrew from a war not yet lost on the field of battle. Roughly one-half the size of its parent study, The Elements of Confederate Defeat retains all the essential arguments of the earlier edition, forming for the student a book that at once follows the events of the war and presents the major interpretations of its outcome in the South.
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(Based on how the three major operational components of wa...)
Based on how the three major operational components of war - tactics, logistics, and strategy - have evolved and changed over time. This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of military history, from infantry combat in ancient Greece through the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the Thirty Years' War.
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(Jones analyzes the conduct of the American Civil War. He ...)
Jones analyzes the conduct of the American Civil War. He argues that Presidents Lincoln and Davis, and their Generals, showed a firm grasp of established military strategy as well as an ability to innovate. He believes the war was decided by strategic skill rather than industrial might. Jones argues that the industrial dominance of the North was offset by the territorial vastness of the South, the difficulties in supplying a distant army, and by the fact that the man with the rifle was the basic and decisive unit of combat rather than large military machinery. He analyzes a variety of strategic manoeuvres - turns, concentration of forces and raids - and relates them to the outcome of the war.
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Jones, Archer was born on October 14, 1926 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of Montgomery Osborne and Helen Rutherfoord (Johnston) Jones.
Student, St. John's College, 1943-1946; Bachelor of Arts, Hampden-Sydney College, 1949; Master of Arts, University Virginia, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy, University Virginia, 1958.
Part-time instructor, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 1953-1954; Part-time instructor, University of Virginia, 1954-1955; instructor, Hampden-Sydney College, 1957-1958; dean, associate professor of history, Clinch Valley College, University of Virginia, 1958-1961; professor of history, department chairman history and political science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1961-1966; associate dean arts and science, professor of history, University of Southern California, 1966-1968; Morrison visiting professor of history, Command and General Staff College, 1976-1977; professor of history, dean, College Humanities and Social Science North Dakota State University, 1968-1985.
( In this widely heralded book first published in 1986, f...)
("The magnum opus of one of America's most respected milit...)
( The Politics of Command reevaluates the continual contr...)
(Based on how the three major operational components of wa...)
( In Why the South Lost the Civil War, four historians co...)
(Blue soft cover, 259 pages, text in new condition, cover ...)
(Selected as one of Civil War magazine's 100 essential tit...)
(Jones analyzes the conduct of the American Civil War. He ...)
Served to First lieutenant Army of the United States, 1946-1947, 55-57. Member Society for Military History, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Married Louise Fairfax Coleman, June 16, 1956 (divorced 1977). 1 son, Caruthers Coleman. Married Joanne Leach Gatewood, February 11, 1978.