War & StrategyBook note
The Art of War: War and Military Thought
Description. A short description of a book from my bookshelf, not a review.
Van Creveld surveys military thought from Sun Tzu and Thucydides through Machiavelli, Jomini and Clausewitz to the theorists of air power, nuclear strategy and modern insurgency, showing how ideas about war have changed and what has remained constant.
It is a compact, illustrated overview from one of the most prolific military historians of his generation. Readers who enjoyed Command in War, reviewed on this site, will find it a useful wider frame.
From the bookshelf · read 2019–2020