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The Strategy Makers: Thoughts on War and Society from Machiavelli to Clausewitz: Praeger Security International

Autor Beatrice Heuser
en Limba Engleză Hardback – sep 2010 – vârsta până la 17 ani
This book reintroduces readers to the lives and writings of the greatest military minds of the modern era, writers whose ideas and teachings continue to shape the conduct of war in the 21st century.The word "strategy" only came into usage in West European languages after the work of a Byzantine emperor was translated around the time of the French Revolution. Nevertheless, there was writing on strategy - relating political aims to the use of the military - also in Western Europe, well before this. This book surveys and analyzes the existing literature. It presents commented excerpts of the work of the Elizabethan writer Matthew Sutcliffe (who wrote the first modern comprehensive strategic concept) and translations into English of excerpts from the writing of the Machiavelli-admirer the Seigneur de Fourquevaux (1548) and his French compatriot Bertrand de Loque, who also went by the name of François de Saillans (1589); the Spanish diplomats and military officers Don Bernardino de Mendoza (1595) and the Third Marques of Santa Cruz de Marcenado (1724-1730); the Frenchmen Paul Hay du Chastelet (1668) and Count Guibert (1770); and the Prussian contemporary of Clausewitz, Rühle von Lilienstern (1816). Key concepts such as preventive war, the fight for the hearts and minds of the population to combat insurgents, the "democratic peace theory," and debates such as the preference for defense or the offensive, the desirability of battle, the purpose and function of war, the advantages of conscript or professional soldiers, can thus be shown to go back far longer than generally assumed and appear in a new light.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780275998264
ISBN-10: 0275998266
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Praeger Security International

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

Beatrice Heuser is chair of International Relations at the University of Reading. She is the author of many books including Reading Clausewitz (2002), The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in Their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context (1999), Nuclear Mentalities? Strategies and Belief Systems in Britain, France and the FRG (1998), and NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000 (1997).

Cuprins

Preface and Acknowledgments1 Introduction: Themes and Context of Literature on Strategy2 Raimond de Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux (1548)3 François de Saillans-Bertrand de Loque (1589)4 Matthew Sutcliffe (1593)5 Don Bernardino de Mendoza (1595)6 Paul Hay du Chastelet (1668)7 Santa Cruz de Marcenado and Zanthier (1724-30/1775)8 Count de Guibert (1772)9 August Rühle von Lilienstern (1816)NotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Recenzii

In this thoughtful, clear and interesting work, Reading University's Professor of International Relations, Beatrice Heuser, offers a significant introduction to Western European thinking on war and the military.