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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... political existence from the earliest stage of political organization to our own day, war is so tragic and intellectually and emotionally so disturbing that they have tended to sidestep it in their research. In the training of ...
... political thinker because he was a military thinker. His view of the military problems of his time patterned his entire political outlook. I. THE VARIO US campaigns and uprisings which have taken place I Machiavelli occupies a unique ...
... political writer began when the Medici returned to Florence in 1512 and ousted him from the Florentine Chancellery, where he had served the Florentine republic for fourteen years. His writings, as many have said, beginning with ...
... political world to those who had the right and the power to make decisions. Machiavelli was deeply involved in the political world, yet he also looked upon it from a distance. None of his contemporaries had to the same degree a view ...
... Political Theory,” Political Studies 13 (1964), 178-83; and G. Martin, “Moritz von Oranlen,” in Grosse Soldaten der europäischen Geschichte, ed. Wolfgang v. Groote (Frankfurt a.M., 1961), 37-62. * From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology ...
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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