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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... question of relevance even more forcefully than did its predecessor. Edward Mead Earle had no doubt that an understanding of war in history would help the reader deal more intelligently with war in the present. Not everyone—certainly ...
... question how the people of Arezzo, who had revolted against Florence, ought to be treated after Florentine rule had been restored. The memorandum began by explaining what, according to Livy, Lucio Furio Camillo had done after the people ...
... question whether they serve to strengthen or to undermine a regime plays a crucial role in these discussions; see “To Fortify or Not to Fortify? Machiavelli's Contribution to a Renaissance Debate” in J. R. Hale, Renaissance War Studies ...
... question of planning in military leadership and of the intellectual training of the general became central problems in military thought. In developing these problems, military thought advanced far beyond Machiavelli, yet these more ...
... question whether Vauban deserves, in any fundamental sense, the label of scientist, or whether he was merely a soldier and builder with a smattering of. * Voltaire, Le siècle de Louis XIV, ch. 21. ** Abraham Wolf, History of Science ...
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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