Summary of the Art of War

Summary of the Art of War
AuthorAntoine-Henri Jomini
Original titlePrécis de l’Art de la Guerre: Des Principales Cominaisons de la Stratégie, de la Grande Tactique et de la Politique
SubjectWar
Publication date
1830
Portrait of author Antoine-Henri Jomini, in military uniform.
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] The work, which lays out Jomini's theory of war, includes a series of maxims that were extensively taught and discussed at the United States Military Academy.

  1. ^ Alger, 1975, pp. 18, 30.

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