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The Art of War

Name: The Art of War
ISBN: 9781627930192

Baron de Jomini

Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · April 8, 2013

Reading lane: Military Strategy

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War’s Wider Art

Jomini’s account of war ranges from battlefield command to the diplomacy that shapes it.

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A classic military thinker’s framework for strategy, tactics, logistics, and engineering
Diplomacy treated as essential to commanding an army

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A rigorous, specialist perspective rooted in the Napoleonic Wars
War considered as both military practice and statecraft

Book Details

Authors: Baron de Jomini
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
Published: April 8, 2013
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Military Strategy · Napoleonic Wars
Reading lane: Military Strategy

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Military Strategy
Napoleonic Wars

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Antoine-Henri Jomini was the most celebrated writer on the Napoleonic art of war. Jomini was present at most of the most important battles of the Napoleonic Wars. His writing, therefore, is the most authoritative on the subject. "The art of war, as generally considered, consists of five purely military branches,-viz.: Strategy, Grand Tactics, Logistics, Engineering, and Tactics. A sixth and essential branch, hitherto unrecognized, might be termed Diplomacy in its relation to War. Although this branch is more naturally and intimately connected with the profession of a statesman than with that of a soldier, it cannot be denied that, if it be useless to a subordinate general, it is indispensable to every general commanding an army." -Antoine-Henri Jomini