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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... soldiers. Since the fourteenth century, Italy had been the “promised land” of all knights to whom war was chiefly a means of making money. The single groups, the compagnie di ventura, were supplied and paid by their leaders, the ...
... soldiers and soldiering. II The circumstances of Machiavelli's personal life were a crucial. 3 Cf. for instance “Ordine dell'Esercito Ducale Sforzesco, 1472-1474,” Archivio storico Lombardo, ser. I, vol. 3 (1876), 448-513. * Cf. Charles ...
... soldiers came from rural areas. The Roman armies were of moderate size, and foot soldiers were their backbone; the value of the cavalry in a battle was very limited, although they were useful in reconnoitering and. * Marchand, Niccolò ...
... soldiers, with fidelity, love of peace, and fear of God. “Who ought to be fonder of peace than soldiers whose life is placed in jeopardy by war?” Readers of The Prince and the Discorsi will doubt that these sentences reflect ...
... soldiers' passions, and would be a ferocious war. For Machiavelli the brutality inherent in war had its ambiguous consequences. It had dangers but also possibilities. The dangers were that the great masses of soldiers, when the struggle ...
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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