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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... writings: new military institutions and new processes in warfare are the most urgent and the most fundamental requirement of his time. Machiavelli is usually held to have introduced a new era, the modern era, in the development of ...
... writings, as many have said, beginning with Machiavelli himself, present the lessons that he had drawn from his “long experience of the affairs of his time.”7 They reduce to prescripts, rules, and laws his observations of the political ...
... writings, only The Art of War was published during his lifetime. In all likelihood Machiavelli wrote this book with its impact on the public of his time in mind. It fit the literary and scholarly conventions of the time.” His ideas are ...
... writings, is that the military forces of a ruler or of a republic must be composed by the inhabitants of the state that the army is expected to defend. “The present ruin of Italy is the result of nothing else than reliance upon ...
... writings. In The Prince he wrote that “there must be good laws where there are good arms, and where there are good arms there must be good laws,”34 and at the end of the Discorsi he gave this notion of the interdependence of military ...
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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