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Title: Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age by Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig ISBN: 0-691-02764-1 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Mandatory Reading for Army Staff Majors
Comment: As the title indicates, the Army's Command & General Staff College requires students to read Makers of Modern Strategy in the core history class. Professors can make best use of this book as a supplement. As other reviewers have noted, the chapters are disjointed with each other. Taken separately, however, many of the chapters help the history student or enthusiast to develop a depth of understanding on a particular subject. Authors such as John Shy, Douglas Porch, Michael Howard, and Condoleeza Rice, just to name a few, explore many of the strategic issues involved with the evolution of military thought.
From Machiavelli and Clausewitz to strategies of world wars and colonial wars, Makers of Modern Strategy adds value to any serious study of warfare. The high quality academic research and thought that underlies many of the articles is worth the price of the book. Highly recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good general military history overview.
Comment: One of the essentials, a good starting point for the study of military history and strategy.
Rating: 4
Summary: Still, this is a good book.....
Comment: Although I agree with the reviewer preceeding me that this might not be as strong of a book as was the masterpiece which preceeded it (by Earle), it is still a strong book and does (generally) what it sets out to do: to provide an accounting of major developments in military thought (i.e. western military thought) from the Renassance to the modern age.
As a text or as a reference, this is still a powerful and useful book. Each of the chapters discusses a major figure's thought in a fashion that can be dealt with easily in a sitting: for those people who don't want to sit and sort through Jomini (though everyone reading this should sit down with Clausewitz! ) or Douhet, to see their rights and wrongs....
I like this book. I bought my copy for $8.00 in NYC and have had it with me through a number of moves since....
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Title: The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy by Russell Frank Weigley ISBN: 025328029X Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: January, 1978 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Patterns of War Since the Eighteenth Century by Larry H. Addington ISBN: 0253208602 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: On War by Karl Von Clausewitz, Carl Von Clausewitz, Carl Von Clausewitz, Anatol Rapoport ISBN: 0140444270 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Patterns of War Through the Eighteenth Century by Larry H. Addington ISBN: 0253205514 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: America's Strategic Choices - revised edition (International Security Readers) by Michael E. Brown ISBN: 0262522748 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 24 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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