Guibert's General Essay on Tactics

by Translated and Annotated by Jonathan Abel and US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth

Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2023 (Reference)

"'The God of War' is near to revealing himself, because we have heard his prophet." So wrote Jean Colin, naming Napoleon the God of War and Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, as his prophet. Guibert was the foremost philosopher of the Military Enlightenment, dedicating his career to systematizing warfare in a single document. The result...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004473157
• ISBN13: 9789004473157
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 336 Pages