The 33 Strategies of War (91 page)

Aberdeen, Lord

Abu Jahal

abundance

Abwehr (German intelligence)

Academie Francaise

Acamas

acclimatization

Achilles

acting out

action(s)

inability to take

indirect

judging others by

preemptive

results of, importance of

through inaction

timing of

unexpected.
See
unexpected strategies

Adams, John

Adams, Samuel

ad-Din, Jalal

advice

Aesop

Afghanistan

British invasion of

Islamic fundamentalism in

Soviet invasion of

Afranius, Lucius

Agamemnon

aggressive impulses/ aggression

disguised or hidden

friendship and

holding back against

as natural

passive.
See
passive-aggression strategy

aggressive passivity

aging

Agrippa, Vipsanius

Aho, James A.

Ajax

Akiko

Alamo, Battle of the

Alcibiades

Alcyoneus

Aldrich, Robert

Alexander I, czar of Russia

Balkans and

European vision of

guerrilla warfare of

Napoleonic Wars and

personality of

religious fervour of

Alexander II, czar of Russia

Alexander III, czar of Russia

Alexander the Great (Alexander III), king of Macedon

Aristotle and

center-of-gravity strategy and

as grand strategist

mother and

Napoleon on

Scythians and

unconventional warfare of

Algeria, France and

Ali, Muhammad

boxing style of

Frazier and

Liston and

Alinsky, Saul D.

alliance(s)

avoiding

breaking up

Dali on

emotions and

false

friendship and

game of

Machiavelli on

mediator, role in

Napoleon on

quality of

Allies, World War I

Allies, World War II.
See also specific countries

blitzkrieg of

deception used by

unified command of

Allifae

All's Well That Ends Well
(Shakespeare)

Al Qaeda

Alvintzi, Joseph d'

ambiguity

ambition

ambivalence about having power

Ame, Cesare

Amin, Hafizullah

Amphipolis, Macedonia

Anabasis: The March Upcountry
(Xenophon)

Anatomy of the Zulu Army
(Knight)

Androcles

Andropov, Yuri

anger

animals, humans as

annihilation strategy

Antaeus

Anti-Machiavel, The
(Frederick the Great)

Apaches

Apollo

appearances

appeasement

Apulia, Italy

Aqaba, battle for

Arabs, in World War I

Arcola, Battle of

Ardant du Picq, Charles

Ares

Ariovistus (Germanic chieftain)

Aristotle

army(ies).
See also specific armies

chain of command in

mind as a

morale of.
See
morale (motivation)

rich

Aron, Raymond

Art of Maneuver, The
(Leonhard)

Art of Political Warfare, The
(Pitney)

Art of War, The
(Machiavelli)

Art of War, The
(Sun-tzu)

Art of Warfare on Land, The
(Chandler)

art world

center-of-gravity strategy in

inner-front strategy in

polarity strategy in

unconventional warfare in

Asculum, Apulia

Assassins

Assassins, The
(Lewis)

Assyrian army

Assyrian Empire

Astyages, king of the Medes

As You Like It
(Shakespeare)

Ataxerxes

Athena

Athens/Athenians

Macedonia and

Persians and

Philip II and

Socrates' influence on

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlantic Wall

Atlas

attrition warfare

Atwater, Lee

Auckland, Lord

Auftragstaktik
(mission-oriented command system)

Augustus

Auld, Thomas

Austerlitz, Battle of

Austria

in Napoleonic Wars

Prussia and

Russia and

in Seven Years' War

authority, distrust of

autonomy

avant-garde

Awful Truth, The

Aztecs

Badeau, Adam

Badoglio, Pietro

Baiken

Bancroft, Anne

Bancroft-Hunt, Norman

Banks, Nathaniel

Bannockburn, Battle of

barbarians

Barkley, Alben

baseball

controlled-chaos strategy in

counterattack strategy in

death-ground strategy in

deterrence strategy in

intelligence-gathering strategy in

one-upmanship in

presence of mind in

battlefield

elevating yourself above

shifting

battles.
See also specific battles

elusive

frontal

picking

Baudrillard, Jean

Bay of Pigs

Beaufre, Andre

Beauharnais, Josephine.
See
Josephine, empress of France

Bell, J. Bowyer

Bellamy, Ralph

Bellows, George

belonging, sense of

Bender, Charles Albert "Chief,"

Bergman, Ingmar

Bernhardi, Friedrich von

Bhagavad Gita, The: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War

bicycling, alliance strategy in

Bismarck, Otto von

Blind Man, The

blitzkrieg strategy

blooming lotus.
See
inner-front strategy

Bokuden, Tsukahara

Bollate, Christopher da

Bolsheviks

Bonaparte, Napoleon

on Alexander the Great

on alliances

blitzkrieg warfare of

on death

decline of

defeats of

divide-and-conquer strategy of