Brief Outline of the art of war. Or a new analytical overview of the main reasons of the strategy, higher tactics and military policy, Part 1

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Comprehensive two-volume work of outstanding military theorist and historian of General Antoine Henry (Henry Veniaminovich) Jomini Swiss by birth, passed from Napoleon’s army in 1813 in the Russian service, is still of considerable scientific interest. The most important contribution Jomini in military science, formulated in this work, is to generalize the experience of wars of the late XVIII XIX centuries. In which the disclosed problems of strategy and tactics of mass armies. The author appreciates the role of the military-historical research into the development of the theory of military art. He sees the strategy as the science of warfare and tactics as the science of battle and battle. He formulated regulations on the theater of war, based on operating and operating lines of the concentration of the main forces and means on the main axis and the interaction of different types of troops in combat, had a great influence on the development of military science and military construction in Russia and in a number of other European armies.