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| List of maps | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface to the American edition | |
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| Preliminary Note | |
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| Warfare and Strategic Cultures in History | |
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| The Ancient Near East | |
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| The Kadesh Inscription (c. 1295 B.C.): The Battle of Kadesh | |
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| Deuteronomy (eight-sixth centuries B.C.): The Conduct of War | |
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| The Dead Sea Scrolls (first century B.C.?): The War Rule | |
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| Greece and Rome | |
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| The Dispute over Corcyra | |
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| Pericles' Reply to the Spartan Ultimatum | |
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| The Expedition of Cyrus | |
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| The Duties of a Cavalry Commander | |
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| The Battle of Lake Trasimene | |
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| The Battle of Cannae | |
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| The Siege of Massilia | |
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| The Battle of Pharsalus | |
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| Guerrilla Warfare | |
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| The Organization of the Roman Army | |
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| The General | |
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| An Absolute Disaster | |
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| War and the Germans | |
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| Germanicus's Campaigns on the Rhine | |
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| The Battle of Issus | |
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| The Battle of Gaugamela | |
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| The War against Porus | |
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| The Battle of Actium | |
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| Dispositions for Action | |
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| China | |
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| The Art of War | |
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| The Book of Lord Shang | |
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| Lord Shang | |
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| Tien Tan | |
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| Lien Po and Lin Hsiang-ju | |
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| Chang Liang, Marquis of Liu | |
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| The Marquis of Huai-yin (Han Hsin) | |
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| India | |
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| The Six-fold Policy | |
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| The Work of an Invader | |
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| Concerning a Powerful Enemy | |
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| Strategic Means to Capture a Fortress | |
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| Byzantium | |
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| The Persian War | |
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| The Gothic War | |
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| Strategy | |
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| Tactics | |
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| The Use of Greek Fire against the Rus | |
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| The Fall of Constantinople | |
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| The Arab World | |
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| The Koran (seventh century): On Holy War | |
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| Sayings Ascribed to the Prophet | |
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| Saying Ascribed to the Prophet | |
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| Abu Bakr on the Rules of War | |
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| Conquest | |
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| The Battle of Kadisaya | |
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| The Battle of Karbala' | |
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| The Battle of Hittin | |
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| The Fall of Acre | |
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| Principles of War | |
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| Bedouins and Sedentary People | |
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| The Admiralty | |
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| Methods of Waging War Practiced by the Various Nations | |
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| Persia | |
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| On Giving Battle to an Enemy | |
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| The Art of Controlling an Armed Force | |
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| The Book of Government | |
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| Conduct of War, Conduct of Battle | |
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| The Use of War | |
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| The Rules of War and Bravery | |
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| On War | |
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| The Ottoman Empire | |
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| Ottoman Chronicle (fourteenth century): The Origin of the Janissaries | |
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| The Sultan in the Field | |
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| Mongolia and Central Asia | |
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| The Coming of the Mongols | |
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| How Mongols Fight | |
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| How to Fight Mongols | |
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| The Mongols in Iran | |
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| The Conquest of Dehli | |
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| The Conquest of Hindustan | |
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| Limited Wars in the West | |
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| The Battle of Crecy | |
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| The Siege of Tenochtitlan | |
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| The Capture of Atahuallpa | |
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| Of Different Kinds of Troops | |
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| The Art of War | |
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| War and Political Strategy | |
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| On the Object of War and the Use of Victory | |
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| The Perfection of the French Artillery | |
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| Sea Warfare and the Defense of England | |
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| The Destruction of the Spanish Armada | |
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| On Sea Power | |
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| General Rules or Maxims for Attacking a Fortress | |
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| Treatise on the Attack and Defense of Fortresses | |
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| Military Considerations | |
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| On Column Order | |
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| On Defensive War | |
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| On Mountain War | |
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| "Testament" | |
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| Reveries on the Art of War | |
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| Military Instructions for the Generals | |
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| Armies, Ancient and Modern | |
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| Introduction to the Essai general de tactique | |
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| The Age of Total Wars | |
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| On the Defense of Fortified Places | |
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| To Michaud, Commander of the Army of the Rhine | |
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| The Current Campaign on the Northern Frontiers | |
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| The Trafalgar Memorandum | |
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| Two Letters | |
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| Maxims (1) | |
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| Maxims (2) | |
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| Geopolitics (from the memoirs of Las Cases) | |
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| On Guerrilla Warfare | |
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| Why Partisan War Suits Russia | |
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| On Partisans and Irregular Forces | |
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| On the Nature of War | |
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| Statesmanship in Its Relation to War | |
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| Strategy | |
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| Strategic Combinations | |
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| Epitome of Strategy | |
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| On Pacification | |
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| The Zulu Army (from the diary of Henry Francis Fynn) | |
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| Confidence, the Soul of Victory | |
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| The March to the Sea | |
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| On Strategy | |
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| The Spirit of Resistance | |
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| Erosion by the Waves of Popular Warfare | |
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| War to the Knife | |
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| The Spatial Growth of States | |
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| The Sea and Sea-going Peoples | |
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| Naval Strategy | |
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| The Nation in Arms | |
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| The Conquest of Madagascar | |
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| Present-day War | |
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| Counterinsurgency | |
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| The Geographical Pivot of History | |
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| The Round World and the Winning of the Peace | |
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| Strategical Terms and Definitions | |
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| On War of Today | |
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| The New Conditions of War | |
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| Principles of War | |
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| Advice of an Onlooker | |
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| The Armored Train | |
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| Guerrilla Warfare | |
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| Command of the Air | |
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| The Aeronautical Era | |
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| The War Object of an Air Force | |
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| On Street Fighting | |
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| Counterinsurgency | |
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| Mounting Threats | |
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| Tank Warfare | |
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| The Strategy of Indirect Approach | |
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| The Significance and Limits of Geography | |
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| The Army of the Future | |
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| "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" | |
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| War and Colonization in the East | |
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| Proclamation to the German People | |
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| Tank Attack | |
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| Rules of Desert Warfare | |
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| The Challenge to America | |
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| Heartland and Rimland | |
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| The Way of Nonviolence | |
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| Strategy in China's Revolutionary War | |
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| The Nuclear Era | |
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| War in the Atomic Age | |
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| The Delicate Balance of Terror | |
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| The Diplomacy of Violence | |
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| Indirect Strategy in the Nuclear Age | |
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| Defense Policy and Strategy | |
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| Elements of a Theory of Crisis | |
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| The Social Dimension of Strategy | |
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| Principal subjects covered | |
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