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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... major battle in twenty years. He achieved his strategic objective, securing the independence of the United Netherlands, but his caution sometimes placed him at a disadvantage against more combative and less methodical adversaries.” Even ...
... major tactical formations, but for battle the companies were combined into battalions, initially 8oo, and later 55o, strong, arrayed in a linear checkerboard pattern similar to the Roman legionary deployment.3° Constant training as well ...
... major fortresses during the campaign season from May to October. Beginning in the east, he took Zutphen and Deventer on the Ijsel line in two weeks in May and June 1591; next he shifted his forces by barge to capture Hulst near Antwerp ...
... major priority.47 Immediately he concluded an armistice with Poland and in 1613 settled the war with Denmark, albeit on most unsatisfactory terms. Then, with La Gardie as his second in command, he campaigned in Finland, managing to gain ...
... major Protestant rulers in North Germany, the electors of Brandenburg and Saxony, were determined to remain neutral, and so from the outset Gustavus was forced to adopt a strategy that would produce a protracted war. Logistics and the ...
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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