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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.
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]
Military theory is the study of the theories which define, inform, guide and explain war and warfare. ... Bülow, de Saxe, Clausewitz, Jomini, Calwell, Mahan, ...
the theory and practice of preparing and conducting military operations on the land, at sea, and in the air. [10] As such it includes the following principles [11] High combat readiness; surprise, decisiveness and active seeking to secure the initiative; full use of all means of combat; coordination and interaction of all types and branches
As such, geometric considerations were prominent in Jomini's theory of strategy. Jomini's two basic principles of strategy were to concentrate against fractions of the enemy force at a time and to strike at the most decisive objective. Clausewitz and Jomini remain required reading for today's military professional officer. [33]
Under the title "Beautiful Defense of Molitor in the Klöntal and in Näfels" one reads from the Vaudois military theorist Antoine-Henri Jomini, who served the Helvetic Republic, France and most recently as General-in-Chief in Russia: "The First Division Suvorov's, which had joined the Auffenberg brigade, finished the clearing of the Klöntal ...
1565. The siege of Malta (1565) was very important from the point of view of military theory and fortification. There is a work that describes the siege. [28] 1577. Theorica y practica de guerra. Bernardino de Mendoza. [29] English translation as Theorique and Practise of Warre (1597) [30] 1582. De jure et officiis bellicis et disciplina militari.
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