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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... 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 strategic theory have on wars and on the periods of peace that followed? I ...
... Fighting Potential” and “Soldiers and the State” in M. E. Mallett and J. R. Hale, The Military Organization of a Renaissance State (Cambridge, 1984), 65-1 oo, 181-98. 7 From Machiavelli's dedication of The Prince to Lorenzo de' 1S ...
... fighting in which there is no room for action by artillery. Finally, artillery is of greater use to the attacker than to the defender, particularly in the siege of a town, and since the great strength of the Roman army was its capacity ...
... fighting in foreign countries,” united; writers who admire Hannibal as a mighty hero and blame him for his cruelty are thoughtless; his cruelty was a principal cause of his success. Coercion, however, needs to be supplemented by ...
... fighting for their native land. Machiavelli's most fundamental thesis, emphasized in all his writings, is that the ... fights for its own reputation and one that is ill disposed and has to fight only for the interests of others.” This ...
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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