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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... French king to send French troops who would help to reestablish Florentine authority in areas that had revolted. The dangers arising from military weakness loomed particularly large in the first decades of the sixteenth century. The ...
... French and drove them out of Naples, the French victory of Agnadello where the discord of their condottieri cost the Venetians their terra ferma, and Ravenna, where the tempestuous attack of Gaston de Foix brought the French victory ...
... French to hasten to the defense of Alsace, only to find that the imperial army had embarked on river barges and floated down the Rhine to join the Dutch. The combined allied armies then forced the French out of Holland, while Turenne ...
... French engineers like Errard de Bar-le-Duc were available to replace the foreigners.; Errard is the titular founder of the French school of fortification, which may be said to date from the publication of his Fortification réduicte en ...
... French, saw both the perfection of the older style of warfare and the launching of a newer style which in many ways ... French Revolution. War before the French Revolution was essentially a clash between rulers. Since that event it has ...
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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