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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age Paperback - 1986

by Peter Paret (Editor); Gordon A. Craig (Editor); Felix Gilbert (Editor)

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  • Title Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 952
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1986-03-21
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4282400-6
  • ISBN 9780691027647 / 0691027641
  • Weight 3 lbs (1.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.23 x 1.76 in (23.52 x 15.82 x 4.47 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Military art and science, Strategy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 85017029
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.02

From the rear cover

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.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 05/01/1986, Page 0

About the author

Peter Paret (1924-2020) was Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University. His books include Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times (Princeton). Gordon A. Craig (1913-2005) was J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University. Felix Gilbert (1905-1991) was Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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