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Antoine-Henri Jomini. Summary of the Art of War: the Principal Combinations of Strategy, Grand Tactics, and Military Politics (French: Précis de l’Art de la Guerre: Des Principales Cominaisons de la Stratégie, de la Grande Tactique et de la Politique) is a military treatise by Antoine-Henri Jomini, originally published as a complete work in 1838. [1]
Antoine-Henri Jomini (French:; 6 March 1779 – 22 March 1869) [1] was a Swiss military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war. Jomini was largely self-taught in military strategy, [2] and his ideas are a staple at military academies, the United ...
Henry Lloyd proffered his version of "Rules" for war in 1781 as well as his "Axioms" for war in 1781. Then in 1805, Antoine-Henri Jomini published his "Maxims" for war version 1, "Didactic Resume" and "Maxims" for war version 2. Carl von Clausewitz wrote his version in 1812 building on the work of earlier writers.
It was in this sense that Antoine-Henri Jomini referred to the term in his Summary of the Art of War (1838). In the English translation, the word became "logistics". [4] In 1888, Charles C. Rogers created a course on naval logistics at the Naval War College.
Mahan was largely responsible for disseminating ideas of European military theorists throughout the United States, particularly Antoine-Henri Jomini, and his lectures and writings were instrumental to U.S. actions in every conflict from the Mexican–American War and American Civil War to World War I and World War II. [7]
Interior lines [a] (as opposed to exterior lines) is a military term, derived from the generic term line of operation or line of movement. [1] The term "interior lines" is commonly used to illustrate, describe, and analyze the various possible routes (lines) of logistics, supply, recon, approach, attack, evasion, maneuver, or retreat of armed forces.
The New York Times named it one of the 100 most notable books of 2012, [17] while TIME included it in their list of Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2012, [18] and NPR listed it as one of the Best 5 Biographies of 2012. [19] Amazon.com chose it as one of the "10 Best Books of 2012" in the Biographies and Memoirs category.
Years later when Moreau was asked about Suvorov, he replied: [54] "What can you say of a general so resolute to a superhuman degree, and who would perish himself and let his army perish to the last man rather than retreat a single pace." Historian Digby Smith called Novi, "one of the bloodiest battles of the era" and the casualties bear this ...