Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear AgePeter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert The classic reference volume on the theory and practice of war |
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... civil servants who wrote down and carried out the measures on which the ruling circle had decided. Machiavelli was an exception; he was a person of political importance in the Florentine republic between 1498 and 1512. As Guicciardini ...
... Civil Societies: The Contemporary Significance of a Traditional Subject in Political Theory,” Political Studies 13 (1964), 178-83; and G. Martin, “Moritz von Oranlen,” in Grosse Soldaten der europäischen Geschichte, ed. Wolfgang v ...
... civil control over the army. All this still lay in the future when Maurice was appointed commander in chief in 1588. At that time politicians and soldiers were united by the need to transform the ineffective mix of mercenaries and ...
... Civil Societies,” 186. * John L. Motley, History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce—1609 (New York, 1886), 3:74. 37 Geyl, The Revolt of the Netherlands, 2.20. * Summary 43 THE ...
... civil wars, aggressive or defensive wars, and hostilities conducted by indirect means. A state, he warned, could be subverted, and he advised that sociopolitical solutions were preferable to military action. “If a prince is not a tyrant ...
Contents
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The Expansion of War | 121 |
From the Industrial Revolution to the First World War | 215 |
From the First to the Secon World War | 479 |
Since 1945 | 733 |
Contributors | 873 |
Bibliographical Notes | 877 |
Index | 933 |
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