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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... France, he took a number of fortresses, severing communications between the eastern and southern Spanish fronts. In 1598, however, peace between Spain and France changed the situation. Reinforced, a Spanish army pushed across the river ...
... France, England, Denmark, and some lesser German Protestant princes had formed to oppose the imperial resurgence. But this ill-assorted array soon was shattered by imperial forces under Albrecht von Wallenstein, the formidable military ...
... France as much as its Continental rivals had fervently desired. It left France's most important conquests virtually intact; it scarcely altered the instrument of Westphalia that was its charter of security; and above all it left its ...
... France, and England turned their attention to problems bearing upon the technical side of warfare. By the year 16oo it was generally realized that the service of outside specialists must be supplemented by some sort of technical ...
... France. The Royal Society of London received its charter at the hands of Charles II in 1662, while four years later, with the encouragement of Colbert, the French Académie Royale des sciences was born. In both of these organizations ...
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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