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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... continued success, decades after the war ended. The book has now provided two generations of readers with a rich fund of knowledge and insight; for some, very likely, it has been their only encounter with the sophisticated study of war ...
... continued existence of struggles and uncertainties patterns the character and the methods of war: there is no safe course. Risks must be taken in these surroundings of uncertainties and dangers, wars ought to be ended as quickly as ...
Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert. This continued interest in Machiavelli as a military thinker was not only caused by the fame of his name; some of the recommendations made in The Art of War—those on training, discipline, and ...
... continued to suffer from poor communications and an environment dominated by fortresses, and although the lines between strategy and tactics continued to be blurred into the late eighteenth century, disciplined standing armies enabled ...
... continued north across the river barriers, he opened a second front in the east, moving through Friesland, Groningen, and Gelderland against the Ijsel river, threatening Utrecht, Holland, and Zeeland. Fear of a Spanish victory compelled ...
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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