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Arming the Nation A people’s war in civilised Europe is a phenomenon of the nineteenth century. It has its advocates and its opponents: the latter either considering it in a political sense as a revo…
Defence of a Theatre of War Having treated of the most important defensive means , we might perhaps be contented to leave the manner in which these means attach themselves to the plan of defence as a…
Defence of a Theatre of War—( continued ) Defence, however, consists of two different elements, these are the decision and the state of expectation . The combination of these two elements forms the …
Defence of a Theatre of War ( continued ) Successive Resistance. We have proved, in the twelfth and thirteenth chapters, that in strategy a successive resistance is inconsistent with the nature of th…
Defence of a Theatre of War ( continued ) When no Decision is Sought for. Whether and how far a war is possible in which neither party acts on the offensive, therefore in which neither combatant has …
The Attack in Relation to the Defence If two ideas form an exact logical antithesis, that is to say if the one is the complement of the other, then, in fact, each one is implied in the other; and whe…
Nature of the Strategical Attack We have seen that the defensive in war generally—therefore, also, the strategic defensive—is no absolute state of expectancy and warding off, therefore no completely …
Of the Objects of Strategical Attack The overthrow of the enemy is the aim in war; destruction of the hostile military forces, the means both in attack and defence. By the destruction of the enemy’s …
Decreasing Force of the Attack This is one of the principal points in strategy: on its right valuation in the concrete, depends our being able to judge correctly what we are able to do. The decrease…
Culminating Point of the Attack The success of the attack is the result of a present superiority of force, it being understood that the moral as well as physical forces are included. In the preceding…
