The Military Resources of Prussia and France: And Recent Changes in the Art of WarLongmans, Green, 1870 - 258 páginas |
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... doubts and the opportunities of the defender or invader . Genius here displays itself by its full and certain grasp of the obstacles or facilities which a large tract of such country contains , by 16 Recent Changes in the Art of War .
... doubts and the opportunities of the defender or invader . Genius here displays itself by its full and certain grasp of the obstacles or facilities which a large tract of such country contains , by 16 Recent Changes in the Art of War .
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... doubt , more common to such commanders , brings hesitation , leading no less to disaster - witness the vacillation of Giulay at the opening of the war in 1859. Nay , he who is successful to the full on a moderate terrain , as Grant at ...
... doubt , more common to such commanders , brings hesitation , leading no less to disaster - witness the vacillation of Giulay at the opening of the war in 1859. Nay , he who is successful to the full on a moderate terrain , as Grant at ...
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... doubt that mankind will greatly be the gainers by the change . Whatever increases the rapidity with which the great machines called armies are worked , and causes the fate of a war sooner to be declared , will diminish the suffering ...
... doubt that mankind will greatly be the gainers by the change . Whatever increases the rapidity with which the great machines called armies are worked , and causes the fate of a war sooner to be declared , will diminish the suffering ...
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... ; and every ill that vacillation and doubt could produce followed as of course . The divisions moved with uncertainty , or stood irresolute till too late for their services to avail 42 Recent Changes in the Art of War .
... ; and every ill that vacillation and doubt could produce followed as of course . The divisions moved with uncertainty , or stood irresolute till too late for their services to avail 42 Recent Changes in the Art of War .
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... doubt , the resolve of Austria to check at once by arms the formidable growth of this new rival for the dominion of Germany , whose power had already so thriven at her expense . The morality of his enemies was little better , it must be ...
... doubt , the resolve of Austria to check at once by arms the formidable growth of this new rival for the dominion of Germany , whose power had already so thriven at her expense . The morality of his enemies was little better , it must be ...
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