Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

Zusatztext "[The essays] are authoritative and convincing. Taken together! they demonstrate the complexity of strategy and the importance of it being closely integrated with politics." Informationen zum Autor Edited by Peter ParetWith Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert Klappentext Carl Von Clausewitz defined strategy as the use of combat, or the threat of combat, for the purpose of the war in which it takes place. This formulation, which a modern historian has characterized as both revolutionary and defiantly simplistic, can be amended or expanded without difficulty. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays that analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries.

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• Authors: Gordon A. (ed) Craig, Peter Paret
• Assisted by: Gordon Craig (Editor), Gordon A Craig (Editor), Gordon A. Craig (Editor), Felix Gilbert (Editor), Peter Paret (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1986
• EAN: 9780691027647
• ISBN: 978-0-691-02764-7
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 45 mm
• Series: Princeton Paperbacks; Princeton Paperbacks
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration