Napoleon on the Art of War by Jay Luvaas
This episode of ReadingforWisdom features a sharply and precisely crafted classic from a great scholar of military history, the late Professor Jay Luvaas renowned for his contribution to making the US Army War College one of the great centres of learning on history, science and the other disciplines associated with war.
A work of thirty years gestation following his 1966 Frederick the Great On the Art of War, Luvaas gathers together Bonaparte's thoughts through his mass volumes of letters, diktats, personal notes, and academic scribbles to give us, for the first time, a coherent codification on this 'demi-god of war's' military philosophy. Luvaas does not disappoint, leaving Napoleon to 'front up' in the book, his own knitting, shaping, adjudicating of Bonaparte thought apparent only from the notation which reveals the depth of translation and scholarly vigour this work required.
Luvaas was a great scholar of the United States Civil War and was, by reputation, the revivor and moderniser of the 'Staff Ride', the tradition since the Franco-Prussian War across military education institutes of studying battlefields in situ to better understand actual conditions and how it shaped the thinking and decision-making of the men who fought there.
Luvaas has little digital media presence but some great writing can be found here http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/l...
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