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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... officer was not motivated by the quest for individual glory, but, having learned to command as well as to obey, would ... officers, drill, and training. It was enough to transform the relationship between the soldier and the state and to ...
... officers, and Maurice has been described as the progenitor of the modern European officer corps. More importantly, he changed the basic ethos of the profession. Influenced by his Calvinist upbringing and neoclassical teachings, he ...
... officers carry boards and planks . . . to teach them and not command them.”35 Maurice went further. He made shovels part of the standard infantry equipment and detailed men for work as needed. Extra pay, up to several times the normal ...
... officers sent their reports and their requests. From them emanated the orders of the minister of war; for only persons of great importance dealt directly with the minister, who had thus become, in all that pertained to important ...
... officers themselves. All the abortive projects for systematic military education, such as the early plans of Henry ... officer. Although organized military education, to say nothing of technical education, had to await the eighteenth ...
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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