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Record Nr.

UNINA9910716667503321

Autore

Clausewitz Carl von <1780-1831.>

Titolo

An annotated Guide to tactics : Carl von Clausewitz's Theory of the combat / / edited and annotated by Olivia A. Garard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Quantico, Virginia : , : Marine Corps University Press, , 2021

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 241 pages)

Disciplina

355.42

Soggetti

Tactics

Strategy

Combat

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The philosophy on which the Marine Corps' seminal warfighting doctrine is based rests on a tradition of professional military scholarship that reaches back to Carl von Clausewitz, author of the well-known treatise On War. Clausewitz's lesser-known and often-misunderstood Guide to Tactics, republished here for the first time as a standalone English text with critical annotations, houses the common tenets on which the Marine Corps' warfighting philosophy is based and provides a guide to thinking about the nature of tactics and combat as valuable to the modern warfighter as to those of old"--