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Description edit
War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic characteristics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries.
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People edit
- Alfred Thayer Mahan: Add a description of this character.
- Moltke
- Machiavelli
- Clausewitz
- Frederick
- Robert E. Lee
- Hitler
- Liddell Hart
- Marx
- Erich Ludendorff
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Vauban
- Hamilton
- Gustavus Adolphus
- Adam Smith
- Guibert
- Churchill
- Roosevelt
- Grant
- Jackson
- Delbruck
- Maurice
- Delbriick
- Jomini
- Schlieffen
- Lyautey
- Bismarck
- Tukhachevsky
- Mao
- Mcnamara
- Seager
- Stalin
- Mcclellan
- Gallieni
- Beck
- Kennedy
- Bernard Brodie
- Sherman
- Gneisenau
- Douhet
- Halleck
- Michael Howard
- Weygand
- Alexander
- Reynaud
- Roberts
Setting & Locations edit
- Germany
- France
- Europe
- United States
- New York
- Prussia
- Japan
- London
- Paris
- Soviet Union
- Great Britain
- Indochina
- Berlin
- Washington
- America
- England
- Pacific
- Italy
- Moscow
- Frunze
- Princeton
- D.c.
- Austria
- Israel
- India
- Poland
- Belgium
- Spain
- Africa
- Egypt
- Southeast Asia
- Cambridge
- Vienna
- Algeria
- Vietnam
- Morocco
- West Point
- Stuttgart
- Leipzig
- Mass.
- Atlantic
- Verdun
- Virginia
- Saxony
- Oeuvres
First Sentence edit
IF THE VARIOUS campaigns and uprisings which have taken place in Italy have given the appearance that military ability has become extinct, the true reason is that the old methods of warfare were not good and no one has been able to find new ones.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Peter Paret (Editor)
- Felix Gilbert (Co-Editor)
- Gordon Alexander Craig (Co-Editor)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 355.02
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