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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... 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 position in the field of military thought because his ideas are based on a ...
... problems that had emerged in his time. Machiavelli's career as a 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 ...
... problems in military thought. In developing these problems, military thought advanced far beyond Machiavelli, yet these more modern conclusions were a logical continuation of the inquiry that he had started. Nevertheless, there is one ...
... problems depended on a general perception, on a correct concept of the 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 ...
... problems of logistics and siege warfare. Perhaps the greatest obstacle to the conduct of consistent military ... problem of how to raise an effective army, capable of serving as a reliable instrument of state policy, was recognized as ...
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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