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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... offensive action. It was better, they maintained, to use the quiet period to strengthen defenses; offensive action “would arouse the sleeping dog and bring the war, now averted, upon themselves again.”37 In the end, Maurice was ...
... offensive action by combined arms although, because of frequent improvisations, there was “no moment . . . when any method universally obtained.”53 Infantry regiments, two squadrons or eight companies, were the basic administrative and ...
... offensive operations against the enemy. The fortified places should be situated so as to command the means of communication within one's own territory and to provide access to enemy soil by controlling important roads or bridgeheads ...
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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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