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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... essays by Gordon A. Craig on Delbrück and by Hajo Holborn on the Prusso-German School have been revised. The remaining twenty-two essays are new. Michael Howard's essay “Men against Fire: The Doctrine of the Offensive in 1914” appeared ...
... essays turn to the further issue: what impact did strategic theory have on wars and on the periods of peace that followed? I The concept of this volume, and some of its substance, derive from an earlier work. In 1941 Edward Mead Earle ...
... essays was marred by chauvinism or denigrated current enemies; even essays on “Japanese Naval Strategy” and “The Nazi Concept of War” maintained an exemplarly intellectual honesty. No doubt that is one reason for the collection's ...
... essay retains a strong voice in the continuing scholarly discourse. The bibliographical notes of these essays have been updated. Two further essays have been very extensively rewritten, and two others revised. The remaining twenty-two ...
... Seven Books Written by Nicholas Machiavel . . . to Which Is Added Hints Relative to Warfare by a Gentleman of the State of New York (Albany, 1815). the discussion of Clausewitz's response to Fichte's essay on Machiavelli 27 MACHIAVELLI.
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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