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The Art of War in Western World

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Description for The Art of War in Western World Paperback. Based on how the three major operational components of war - tactics, logistics, and strategy - have evolved and changed over time. This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of military history, from infantry combat in ancient Greece through the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the Thirty Years' War. Num Pages: 768 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 179 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1320.
The magnum opus of one of America's most respected military historians, The Art of War in the Western World has earned its place as the standard work on how the three major operational components of war--tactics, logistics, and strategy--have evolved and changed over time. This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of military history, from infantry combat in ancient Greece through the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the Thirty Years' War and from the Napoleonic campaigns through World War II, which Jones sees as the culmination of modern warfare, to the Israeli-Egyptian War of 1973.
 

Product Details

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
1319g
Number of Pages
768
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252069666
SKU
V9780252069666
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About Archer Jones
  Archer Jones has studied and taught military history for more than thirty-five years, including as Morrison Professor of History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He is the author of Elements of Military Strategy and Confederate Strategy from Shiloh to Vicksburg and coauthor of Why the South Lost the Civil War, How the North Won: A ... Read more

Reviews for The Art of War in Western World
"No other similar work so thoroughly and objectively highlights the strategic, tactical and logistic continuities and changes that have animated war from the time of the ancient Greeks to the Yom Kippur War. No other work steps through the past twenty-five centuries with more impartiality... There has not been such a comprehensive and useful book in generations."
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