viii, 273 p. ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Positivism, Romanticism, and Military Theory 1815-1870 -- The German Military School: Its World-View and ConceptionofWar 1815-1914 -- Moltke and the Era of German Unification -- 'World Power or Decline' -- The Cult of the Offensive: The Sources of French MilitaryDoctrine 1871-1914 -- The French Discovery of Clausewitz and Napoleon -- Military Inferiority, Domestic Pressures, and the Philosophy of Elan Vital -- From Sail to Steam: Naval Theory and the Military Parallel 1882-1914 -- Mahan and the Sweep of History -- Corbett's Revisionism from Drake to Jutland -- Marxism, Clausewitz, and Military Theory 1848 to the Nuclear Age --

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