Makers of Modern Strategy

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history / political science
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
edited by peter paret with gordon a. craig and felix gilbert
The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characteristics and its polidcal and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspecdves applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present.
The subjects addressed range from major theorists and polidcal and military leaders to impersonal forces. Machiavelli, Clausewitz, and Marx and Engels are discussed, as are Napoleon, Churchill, and Mao. Other essays trace the interac-don of theory and experience over generanons—the evolution of American strategy, for instance, or the emergence of revolutionary war in the modern world. Snll others analyze the strategy of particular conflicts—the First and Second World Wars—or the relationship... Tovább

Fülszöveg

history / political science
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
edited by peter paret with gordon a. craig and felix gilbert
The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characteristics and its polidcal and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspecdves applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present.
The subjects addressed range from major theorists and polidcal and military leaders to impersonal forces. Machiavelli, Clausewitz, and Marx and Engels are discussed, as are Napoleon, Churchill, and Mao. Other essays trace the interac-don of theory and experience over generanons—the evolution of American strategy, for instance, or the emergence of revolutionary war in the modern world. Snll others analyze the strategy of particular conflicts—the First and Second World Wars—or the relationship between technology, policy, and war in the nuclear age. Whatever its theme, each essay places the specifics of military thought and action in their polidcal, social, and economic environment. Together the contributors have produced a book that reinterprets and illuminates war, one of the most powerful forces in history and one that cannot be controlled in the future without an understanding of its past.
Peter Paret is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanides, Insntute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times (Princeton) and editor and translator, with Michael Howard, of Clausewitz's On War (Princeton). Gordon A. Craig is J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University. Felix Gilbert is Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Vissza