Education
University of Oxford. London School of Economics. University of Marburg.
(Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of ...)
Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial new account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia.
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University of Oxford. London School of Economics. University of Marburg.
She has a chair of International Relations at the University of Reading. Heuser has a Bachelor of Arts in History from Bedford College, a Master of Arts in International History from the London School of Economics and a Doctorate.Phil. in Political Science from the University of Oxford. In addition, she holds a Higher Doctorate from the University of Marburg.
From 1989 to 1991, she worked at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London.
Subsequently, she became a lecturer and later a professor of Strategic Studies at King"s College London. She has also taught in France at the University of Reims, and the Graduate School of Journalism in Lille, and in Germany at the University of Potsdam and Bundeswehr University of Munich.
In 2011/2012 she held visiting professorships at the University of Paris 8 (Street Denis) and the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne) - the Chaire Dupront. Before joining the University of Reading, she had been the director of the research section of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office in Potsdam from 2003 to 2007.
Heuser specialises in strategic studies, especially nuclear strategy, strategic theory and strategic culture, the transatlantic relations as well as the foreign and defence policies of Germany, France and Great Britain.
(Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of ...)