Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age Paret Peter
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age Paret Peter The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past…
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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age Paret Peter
The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age takes the first part of its title from an earlier collection of essays, published by Princeton University Press in 1943, which became a classic of historical scholarship. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives 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 rest--twenty-two essays--are new.The subjects addressed range from major theorists and political and military leaders to impersonal forces. Three essays are repinted from the earlier book; four others have been extensively revised. Machiavelli, Clausewitz, and Marx and Engels are discussed, as are
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