Makers of modern strategy; military thought from Machiavelli to Hitler
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1943
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Edward Mead
- pt. 1: The origins of modern war : from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Machiavelli : the renaissance of the art of war / Felix Gilbert ; 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 classics of the nineteenth century : interpreters of Napoleon. Jomini / Crane Brinton, Gordon A. Craig, and Felix Gilbert ; Clausewitz / H. Rothfels
- pt. 3: From the nineteenth century to the First World War. Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List : the economic foundations of military power / Edward Mead Earle ; Engels and Marx : military concepts of the social revolutionaries / Sigmund Neumann ; Moltke and Schieffen : The Prussian-German School / Hajo Holborn ; Du Picq and Foch : The French School / Stefan T. Possany and Etienne Mantoux ; Bugeaud, Galliéni, Lyautey : the development of French colonial warfare / Jean Gottmann ; Dulbrück : The military historian / Gordon A. Craig
- pt. 4: From the First to the Second World War. Churchill, Lloyd George, Clemenceau : The emergence of the civilian / Harvey A. DeWeerd ; Ludendorff : The German concept of total war / Hans Speier ; Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin : Soviet concepts of war / Edward Mead Earle ; Maginot and Liddell Hart : The doctrine of defense / Irving M. Gibson ; Haushofer : The geopoliticians / Derwent Whittlesey
- pt. 5. Sea and air war. Mahan : Evangelist of sea power / Margaret Tuttle Sprout ; Continental doctrines of sea power / Theodore Ropp ; Japanese naval strategy / Alexander Kiralfy ; Douhet, Mitchell, Seversky : theories of air warfare / Edward Warner
- Epilogue. Hitler : the Nazi concept of war / Edward Mead Earle
- Sect. 1 The origins of modern war: from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century: Machiavelli: the Renaissance of the art of war / Felix Gilbert
- Vauban: the impact of science on war / Henry Guerlac
- Frederick the Great, Guibert, Bülow: from dynastic to national war / R.R. Palmer
- Sect. 2. The classics of the nineteenth century: interpreters of Napoleon: Jomini / Crane Brinton, Gordon A. Craig, and Felix Gilbert
- Clausewitz / H. Rothfels
- Sect. 3. From the nineteenth century to the First World War: Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List: the economic foundations of military power / Edward Mead Earle
- Engels and Marx: military concepts of the social revolutionaries / Sigmund Neumann
- Moltke and Schlieffen: the Prussian-German school / Hajo Holborn
- Du Picq and Foch: the French school / Stefan T. Possony and Etienne Mantoux
- Bugeaud, Galliéni, Lyautey: the development of French colonial warfare / Jean Gottmann
- Delbrück: the military historian / Gordon A. Craig
- Sect. 4. From the First to the Second World War: Churchill, Lloyd George, Clemenceau: the emergence of the civilian / Harvey A. DeWeerd
- Ludendorff: the German concept of total war / Hans Speier
- Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin: Soviet concepts of war / Edward Mead Earle
- Maginot and Liddell Hart: the doctrine of defense / Irving M. Gibson
- Haushofer: the geopoliticians / Derwent Whittlesey
- Sect. 5. Sea and air war: Mahan: evangelist of sea power / Margaret Tuttle Sprout
- Continental doctrines of sea power / Theodore Ropp
- Japanese naval strategy / Alexander Kiralfy
- Douhet, Mitchell, Seversky: theories of air warfare / Edward Warner
- Epilogue: Hitler: the Nazi concept of war / Edward Mead Earle.