The Origins of Military Thought : From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz
by
Azar Gat
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Oxford Historical Monographs
ISBN-10
0198202571
ISBN-13
9780198202578
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 5th, 1991
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
354 grams
Dimensions
21.40 x 14.20 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
European historyModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900Military intelligence
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This study relates the work of Clausewitz and other military thinkers to their cultural background, and demonstrates how the main currents of modern military thought have evolved from the cultural frameworks of the German Movement and the Enlightenment.
This book sheds new light on the origins and nature of modern military thinking. The ideas of Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) - which remain at the heart of strategic analysis today - have hitherto been examined largely in isolation from their cultural and philosophical roots in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Azar Gat now demonstrates the extent to which culture affects military theory.Dr Gat relates a series of military thinkers to their cultural background, demonstrating how the major currents of modern military thought have evolved from the world-view of the Enlightenment on the one hand and Romanticism on the other. Tracing the development of Clausewitz''s ideas, he provides a provocative critique of Clausewitz''s classic work, On War. In the process, he offers an illuminating insight into a great period of European culture and into warfare in the age of Napoleon.
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