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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... turn will give rise to further ideas. The history of strategic thought is a history not of pure but of applied reason. Consequently the essays in this volume go far beyond theory and touch on many of the military and nonmilitary factors ...
... turn to the further issue: what impact did strategic theory have on wars and on the periods of peace that followed? I The concept of this volume, and some of its substance, derive from an earlier work. In 1941 Edward Mead Earle ...
... turn his troops into effective and disciplined fighters. These qualities, Lipsius maintained, had been the main factors enabling Roman citizen-soldiers to overcome superior numbers of less disciplined foes.” Discipline then became the ...
... turn against Gertruidenberg in the southeast, the States of Friesland forbade William Louis and his troops to participate in the operation. After considerable delay and a long siege, Gertruidenberg fell in June 1593, and the following ...
... turn southwest into the Lower Palatinate and the Rhineland. A move on Vienna would have struck at the heart of imperial power, but Gustavus considered it too risky with winter approaching and with only the weak Saxons guarding his rear ...
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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