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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... campaign and could be kept together only as long as this campaign lasted. The purely temporary character of military service as well as the equality of standing of the noble fighters made strict discipline difficult if not impossible. A ...
... campaign, which must be a planned and coordinated operation. Command, therefore, must be in the hands of one man. If the state is a monarchy, the ruler himself ought to be the commanding general. But republics too should entrust their ...
... campaign therefore must be a planned operation, under a unified command, culminating in a battle of decision. What the appropriate means are—what the correct strategy is—to carry out this aim will depend on the particular circumstances ...
... campaign season from May to October. Beginning in the east, he took Zutphen and Deventer on the Ijsel line in two weeks in May and June 1591; next he shifted his forces by barge to capture Hulst near Antwerp in five days in September ...
... campaign did not materialize. Instead, it became a long war of attrition in which the young king learned useful ... Campaigns abroad, above all the king's war in Germany, could not be sustained by a population base of some one and a half ...
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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