The Rise of Modern Warfare, 1618-1815

Krigsvidenskab, krigshistorie, om "moderne" krigsførelse, udviklingen af krigskunsten, krigsførelsen og krigsteorierne i årene fra 1618 med Gustavus Adolphus til og med Napoleon og Wellington, i 1815. Bogen forsøger at beskrive "absolutism in warfare" og med det menes: "History is a continius flow of events: fundamental changes rarely happen suddenly. Absolutism has been described by the great German historian Otto Hintze as "The Epoch of Militarism" in Europe, but there are amble reasons to doubt whether this definition was true at the time Hintze wrote it, namely at the turn of the twentieth century. Absolutist power and the changes it brought to the art of war were not the products of sudden upheaval but the results of gradual change." Fra indholdet: The Rise of Absolutism; Beginning of Modern Warfare; The Periphery of Europe: England: Russia; Army and Absolutism in France; The Rise of Prussia; The New Sparta: Prussia and the Army of Frederick William I; The Climax of Absolutist Warfare; Warfare in the New World: North America; The "General Will"; The New Age: Napoleon; The German Reaction. KGB har iøvrigt en senere samlet udgave, hvoraf denne indgår som en del, se: ISBN: 0862881292.