Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear AgePeter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic characteristics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. |
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Contents
The Renaissance of the Art of War Felix Gilbert II | 11 |
Maurice of Nassau Gustavus Adolphus Raimondo | 32 |
The Impact of Science on War Henry Guerlac | 64 |
From Dynastic to National | 91 |
Napoleon and the Revolution in War Peter Paret | 123 |
Jomini John Shy | 143 |
Clausewitz Peter Paret | 186 |
The Economic | 217 |
The Political Leader as Strategist Gordon A Craig | 481 |
The Doctrine of the Offensive in 1914 | 510 |
German Strategy in the Age of Machine Warfare 19141945 | 527 |
The Doctrines of Limited Liability | 598 |
The Air Power Theorists | 624 |
The Making of Soviet Strategy Condoleezza Rice | 648 |
Allied Strategy in Europe 19391945 Maurice Matloff | 677 |
American and Japanese Strategies in the Pacific | 703 |
Engels and Marx on Revolution War and the Army in Society | 262 |
Moltke and the Rise of the General | 281 |
Moltke Schlieffen and the Doctrine of Strategic Envelopment | 296 |
The Military Historian Gordon A Craig | 326 |
The Western Model and | 354 |
The Development of French | 376 |
American Strategy from Its Beginnings through the First World | 408 |
The Naval Historian Philip A Crowl | 444 |
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