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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... Forgotten Dimensions of Strategy,” Foreign Affairs (Summer 1979); reprinted in Michael Howard, The Causes of War, 2d ed. (Cambridge, Mass., 1984), I C. I. the Renaissance on the most effective application of their society's Introduction.
... effective application of their society's military resources: how can the fighting power available, or potentially available, be used to best purpose? Having addressed these ideas, the essays turn to the further issue: what impact did ...
... effective army, capable of serving as a reliable instrument of state policy, was recognized as early as the late fifteenth century, and soon the revival of interest in classical civilization had a distinct impact on military theory and ...
... effective but also controlled forces during the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands. Here the ruling Dutch oligarchy was prepared to entrust its commanders, princes of the House of Orange-Nassau, with the organization of a new model ...
... effective and disciplined fighters. These qualities, Lipsius maintained, had been the main factors enabling Roman citizen-soldiers to overcome superior numbers of less disciplined foes.” Discipline then became the key element, and even ...
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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