The Development of Military Thought The Nineteenth Century

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ISBN: 9780198202462 | 0198202466
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/19/1992

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This scholarly and original study of military thought during the nineteenth century focuses on the wider conceptions of war, strategy, and military theory which dominated the West in this period. Azar Gat's penetrating analysis uncovers the intellectual assumptions and picture of the past which underlay military policy and practice.

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Preface
Positivism, Romanticism, and Military Theory 1815-1870	p. 1
The German Military School: Its World-View and Conception of War 1815-1914	p. 46
Moltke and the Era of German Unification	p. 49
'World Power or Decline'	p. 73
The Cult of the Offensive: The Sources of French Military Doctrine 1871-1914	p. 114
The French Discovery of Clausewitz and Napoleon	p. 116
Military Inferiority, Domestic Pressures, and the Philosophy of Elan Vital	p. 134
From Sail to Steam: Naval Theory and the Military Parallel 1882-1914	p. 173
Mahan and the Sweep of History	p. 174
Corbett's Revisionism from Drake to Jutland	p. 204
Marxism, Clausewitz, and Military Theory 1848 to the Nuclear Age	p. 226
Conclusion	p. 247
Bibliography	p. 249
Index	p. 269
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