Description: IntroductionNote on DatesPart One The Profession of Officership and the Birth of Modern WarChapter One The Return of the Legions: Gustavus Adolphus and BreitenfeldChapter Two The Limits of the New Legions: Lutzen and AfterChapter Three Under the Lily Banners: RocroiChapter Four The Army of the Sun KingChapter Five Marlborough's Battles: Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, and MalplaquetChapter Six The Emergence of the Great Powers of Eastern EuropeChapter Seven The Rise of Naval PowerPart Two The Eighteenth Century: The Classical Epoch of Modern WarChapter Eight The Battles of Frederick the GreatChapter Nine The French and British Armed Forces from the Rhine to the St. LawrenceChapter Ten Toward Wars of Nations: The War of American IndependenceChapter Eleven Prelude to RevolutionPart Three Thunderstrokes of Battle: The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsChapter Twelve The French Revolution: Transformation and Continuity in WarChapter Thirteen Sea Power and EmpireChapter Fourteen The Climax of Napoleonic War: To Austerlitz and Jena-AuerstadtChapter Fifteen The Gradual Eclipse of the Battle of Annihilation: The Rise of the War of AttritionChapter Sixteen Campaigns of Exhaustion and AttritionChapter Seventeen The Resurgence of Military ProfessionalismChapter Eighteen The Downfall of GeniusChapter Ninetten The End of an Age: WaterlooChapter Twenty On the Future of WarBibliographical NotesIndex

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