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Attack on a Theatre of War without the View to a Great Decision 1. Although there is neither the will nor the power sufficient for a great decision, there may still exist a decided view in a strategi…
Attack on Fortresses The attack on fortresses cannot of course come before us here in its aspect as a branch of the science of fortification or military works; we have only to consider the subject, f…
Attack on Convoys The attack and defence of a convoy form a subject of tactics: we should, therefore, have nothing to say upon the subject here if it was not necessary, first, to demonstrate generall…
Attack on the Enemy’s Army in its Cantonments We have not treated of this subject in the defence, because a line of cantonments is not to be regarded as a defensive means, but as a mere existence of …
Diversion According to the ordinary use of language, under the term diversion is understood such an incursion into the enemy’s country as draws off a portion of his force from the principal point. It…
Invasion Almost all that we have to say on this subject consists in an explanation of the term. We find the expression very frequently used by modern authors and also that they pretend to denote by i…
On the Culminating Point of Victory(*) (*) See Chapters IV. and V. The conqueror in a war is not always in a condition to subdue his adversary completely. Often, in fact, almost universally, there i…
Introduction In the chapter on the essence and object of war, we sketched, in a certain measure, its general conception, and pointed out its relations to surrounding circumstances, in order to commen…
Absolute and Real War The Plan of the War comprehends the whole Military Act; through it that Act becomes a whole, which must have one final determinate object, in which all particular objects must b…
A. Interdependence of the Parts in War According as we have in view the absolute form of war, or one of the real forms deviating more or less from it, so likewise different notions of its result will…
