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The evolution of modern land warfare : theory and practice

Illustrated with the author's own campaign maps and battle diagrams, this text surveys the evolution of warfare in Europe from the Napoleonic Wars, and in Asia from the Middle Ages. It underlines the value of Asian campaigns as sources of universal lessons and of the principles of war.
Print Book, English, 1990
Routledge, London, 1990
History
xv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780415020732, 0415020735
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Ground rules
Technics and warfare
The expansion of the battlefield and the operational level of war, 1800-1918
Air-land battle, 1918-77
case study one : corps volant to OMG : the practical utility of military history
Case study two : don't get involved in a land war in Asia
Some conclusions and prognoses