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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... nature of the sacrifice by the slaughter of many animals and the familiarity with this terrible sight”—intoxicated men with bellicose zeal. The Christian religion has created difficulties to the development of warlike virtues because it ...
... nature of the modern state system— that as his reluctant follower, Frederick II of Prussia, wrote: “s'agrandir” is the “principe permanent” of the policy of a state—and to conclude that the existence of a state depends on its capacity ...
... nature of war. All doctrines of Clausewitz have their origin in an analysis of the general nature of war. Thus, even this great revolutionary among the military thinkers of the nineteenth century did not overthrow Machiavelli's ...
... nature of war." If, then, the term “military revolution” is taken to mean more than the adoption of new weapons and tactical formations and is designed to embrace a complete and fundamental shift in the nature of armies and warfare ...
... nature of war to ruin land and people, these countries have been noticeably improved thereby.” Financial strength provided the Orangist reformers with the resources to pay a standing professional army, conduct large-scale siege warfare ...
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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