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Strategy.
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Military art and science.
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Military history, Modern.
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Arte y ciencia militares.
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Historia militar moderna.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (vii, 941 pages) |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
| Contents |
pt. 1: The origins of modern war. Machiavelli : the renaissance of the art of war / Felix Gilbert ; Maurice of Nassau, Gustavus Adolphus, Raimondo Montecuccoli, and the "military revolution" of the seventeenth century / Gunther E. Rothernberg ; Vauban : the impact of science on war / Henry Guerlac ; Frederick the Great, Guibert, Bülow : from dynastic to national war / R.R. Palmer -- pt. 2. The expansion of war. Napoleon and the revolution in war / Peter Paret ; Jomini / John Shy ; Clausewitz / Peter Paret -- pt. 3: From the Industrial Revolution to the First World War. Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List : the economic foundations of military power / Edward Mead Earle ; Engels and Marx on revolution, war, and the army in society / Sigmund Neumann and Mark von Hagen ; The Prusso-German school : Moltke and the rise of the general staff / Hajo Holborn ; Moltke, Schieffen, and the doctrine of strategic envelopment / Gunther E. Rothenberg ; Delbrück : the military historian / Gordon A. Craig ; Russian military thought : the Western model and the shadow of Suvorov / Walter Pinter ; Bugeaud, Galliéni, Lyautey : the development of French colonial warfare / Douglas Porch ; American strategy from its beginnings through the First World War / Russell F. Weigley ; Alfred Thayer Mahan : the naval historian / Philip A. Crowl -- pt. 4: From the First to the Second World War. The political leader as strategist / Gordon A. Craig ; Men against fire : the doctrine of the offensive in 1914 / Michael Howard ; German strategy in the age of machine warfare, 1914-1945 / Michael Geyer ; Liddell Hart and De Gaulle : the doctrines of limited liability and mobile defense / Brian Bond and Martin Alexander ; Voices from the central blue : the air power theorists / David MacIsaac ; The making of Soviet strategy / Condoleezza Rice ; Allied strategy in Europe, 1939-1945 / Maurice Matloff ; American and Japanese strategies in the Pacific War / D. Clayton James -- pt. 5: Since 1945. The first two generations of nuclear strategists / Lawrence Freedman ; Conventional warfare in the nuclear age / Michael Carver ; Revolutionary war / John Shy and Thomas W. Collier ; Reflections on strategy in the present and future / Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert. |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| Alt author |
Paret, Peter.
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Craig, Gordon Alexander, 1913-2005.
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Gilbert, Felix, 1905-1991.
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| ISBN |
9781400835461 (electronic bk.) |
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1400835461 (electronic bk.) |
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9780691092355 |
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0691092354 |
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9780691027647 |
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0691027641 |
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