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Strategy Before Clausewitz - Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830 (Paperback)
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Strategy Before Clausewitz - Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830 (Paperback)
Series: Cass Military Studies
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This collection of essays combines historical research with
cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant
contribution to the study of the early history of strategic
thinking. There is a debate as to whether strategy in its modern
definition existed before Napoleon and Clausewitz. The case studies
featured in this book show that strategic thinking did indeed exist
before the last century, and that there was strategy making, even
if there was no commonly agreed word for it. The volume uses a
variety of approaches. First, it explores the strategy making of
three monarchs whose biographers have claimed to have identified
strategic reasoning in their warfare: Edward III of England, Philip
II of Spain and Louis XIV of France. The book then analyses a
number of famous strategic thinkers and practitioners, including
Christine de Pizan, Lazarus Schwendi, Matthew Sutcliffe, Raimondo
Montecuccoli and Count Guibert, concluding with the ideas that
Clausewitz derived from other authors. Several chapters deal with
reflections on naval strategy long thought not to have existed
before the nineteenth century. Combining in-depth historical
documentary research with strategic analysis, the book illustrates
that despite social, economic, political, cultural and linguistic
differences, our forebears connected warfare and the aims and
considerations of statecraft just as we do today. This book will be
of great interest to students of strategic history and theory,
military history and IR in general.
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