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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... direct lessons. To claim that kind of relevance is to deceive oneself. But history as the educated memory of what has gone before is a resource not to be abandoned lightly. In the affairs of a nation and in the relations between states ...
... direct influence on Maurice of Nassau. In his lectures and writings, Lipsius, an admirer of Machiavelli, whom he ranked with Plato and Aristotle, stressed the doctrines of obedience, loyalty, and service to the state. His Politicorum ...
... direct fire support for the foot. Reserves, horse and foot, were withheld for use as needed. It was an effective, if complicated, system and even Gustavus, a great combat commander with drive, willpower, decisiveness, and originality ...
... direct effects upon military affairs, and to these we must now turn. II Science and warfare have always been intimately connected. In antiquity this alliance became strikingly evident in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Archimedes ...
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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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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age Peter Paret,Gordon A. Craig,Felix Gilbert No preview available - 1986 |