Promotional Information

This book reintroduces readers to the lives and writings of the greatest military minds of the modern era, writers whose ideas and teachings continue to shape the conduct of war in the 21st century.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Themes and Context of Literature on Strategy
2 Raimond de Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux (1548)
3 François de Saillans—Bertrand de Loque (1589)
4 Matthew Sutcliffe (1593)
5 Don Bernardino de Mendoza (1595)
6 Paul Hay du Chastelet (1668)
7 Santa Cruz de Marcenado and Zanthier (1724–30/1775)
8 Count de Guibert (1772)
9 August Rühle von Lilienstern (1816)
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Beatrice Heuser is chair of International Relations at the University of Reading. She is the author of many books including Reading Clausewitz (2002), The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in Their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context (1999), Nuclear Mentalities? Strategies and Belief Systems in Britain, France and the FRG (1998), and NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000 (1997).

Reviews

In this thoughtful, clear and interesting work, Reading University's Professor of International Relations, Beatrice Heuser, offers a significant introduction to Western European thinking on war and the military.
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