Frederick the Great, Guibert, Bülow: From Dynastic to National War
Title | Frederick the Great, Guibert, Bülow: From Dynastic to National War |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 1986 |
Authors | Palmer, Robert R. |
Editor | Gilbert, Felix, Craig A. Gordon, and Peter Paret |
Book Title | Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age |
Pagination | 91-119 |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
City | Princeton, NJ |
Abstract | This chapter in the edited volume Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age explores the development of strategic planning in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Europe from the Prussian king Frederick the Great (1712–1786), who was in power from 1740 to 1786, the French general and military writer Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert (1743–1790) and the Prussian general Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755-1816). By focusing on these three military leaders the strategic continuities and changes between the First (1740–1742) and Second (1744–1745) Silesian War, the Seven Years War (1756-1763) and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815) are examined. This period saw both the perfection of the older style of warfare and the launching of a newer style which in many ways are still followed. The contrast between the two styles is the main subject of this chapter. Much of the old, however, was continued in the new. |
URL | https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv8xnhvw |
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