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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... Society Sigmund Neumann and Mark von Hagen 262. Io. The Prusso-German School: Moltke and the Rise of the General Staff Hajo Holborn 281 II. Moltke, Schlieffen, and the Doctrine of Strategic Envelopment Gunther E. Rothenberg 296 12 ...
... society, economics, and politics, as well as on other, often fleeting factors that give rise to the issues and conflicts war is meant to resolve. The historian of strategy cannot ignore these forces. He must analyze the varied context ...
... society. And we have not always had this understanding.” The impact on these words of the condition in which they were written is apparent. A society that until recently had paid little attention to events beyond its borders was now ...
... society in which God was envisaged as the head of a hierarchy, all secular activity had been given a religious meaning. The particular task of chivalry was to protect and defend the people of the country; in waging war the knight served ...
... society the effects of this development on military institutions were immediate. In the military field those who were the protagonists of the new economic developments—the cities and the wealthy overlords—could make great use of the new ...
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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