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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... chief argument was that artillery is inaccurate; its shots are frequently too high or too low. Moreover artillery is slow and difficult to move: in a battle it would be easy to take the artillery by storm; a battle is decided in hand-to ...
... chief lieutenant, Pappenheim, were able to raise new forces during the winter while a chastened emperor hastily struck a deal with Wallenstein to form a new army in Bohemia. But Gustavus was interested in establishing a secure base ...
... chief financial backer since January 1631, while his attempts to control the alpine passes had estranged the Swiss cantons. Moreover, the electors of Brandenburg and Saxony were wavering as Wallenstein quietly suggested to them that ...
... chief states of Europe were at last consolidated, the old struggle was resumed as part of Louis XIV's bid for European supremacy, but with a difference: for now the newly risen merchant powers, Holland and England, which had aided ...
... chief claim to scientific originality is that he sought to extend the quantitative method into fields where, except for his English contemporaries, no one had yet seriously ventured. He is, in fact, one of the founders of systematic ...
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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