Clausewitz in his time : essays in the cultural and intellectual history of thinking about war /

Anything but a detached theorist, Clausewitz was as fully engaged in the intellectual and cultural currents of his time as in its political and military conflicts. Late-eighteenth century thought helped shape the analytic methods he developed for the study of war. The essays in this volume follow hi...

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Hlavní autor: Paret, Peter
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York : Berghahn Books [2015]
Vydání:First edition.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt9qd0q3
Obsah:
  • Text and context: two ways to Clausewitz
  • A learned officer among others
  • Frederick the Great and his interpreters Clausewitz and Schlieffen
  • Phases in the history of strategy
  • From ideal to ambiguity: Johannes von Miller, Clausewitz
  • And the people in arms
  • "Half against my will I have become a professor"
  • Two historians on defeat and its causes.