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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... field of military thought because his ideas are based on a recognition of the link between the changes that occurred in military organization and the revolutionary developments that took place in the social and political sphere. To the ...
... field. When rapid expansion of a money economy shook the agricultural basis of medieval society the effects of this development on military institutions were immediate. In the military field those who were the protagonists of the new ...
... field and to defeat him there; this is the only way “to bring a war to a happy conclusion.” Machiavelli's Art of War is divided into seven books and. * This discussion follows the description of a battle in book 3 of The Art of War. *3 ...
... field and now also far more numerous, even in the records of commanders wishing to fight in the open. In this military environment the “art of war was stiffening into immobility,” with an “almost total lack of an abstract conception of ...
... field army of the provinces. In addition, Maurice already held office as stadtholder, representative of the sovereign, in two of the provinces, Holland and Zeeland, and after 1591 also in Gelderland, Overijsel, and Utrecht. At the same ...
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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