On War

Table of contents

• What is War?
• End and Means in War
• The Genius for War
• Of Danger in War
• Of Bodily Exertion in War
• Information in War
• Friction in War
• Concluding Remarks
• Branches of the Art of War
• On the Theory of War
• Art or Science of War
• Methodicism
• Criticism
• On Examples
• Strategy
• Elements of Strategy
• Moral Forces
• The Chief Moral Powers
• Military Virtue of an Army
• Boldness
• Perseverance
• Superiority of Numbers
• The Surprise
• Stratagem
• Assembly of Forces in Space
• Assembly of Forces in Time
• Strategic Reserve
• Economy of Forces
• Geometrical Element
• On the Suspension of the Act in War
• On the Character of Modern War
• Tension and Rest
• Introductory
• Character of a Modern Battle
• The Combat in General
• The Combat in General (continuation )
• On the Signification of the Combat
• Duration of Combat
• Decision of the Combat
• Mutual Understanding as to a Battle
• The Battle
• Effects of Victory
• The Use of the Battle
• Strategic Means of Utilising Victory
• Retreat After a Lost Battle
• Relation of Power
• Relation of the Three Arms
• Subsistence
• Base of Operations
• Lines of Communication
• Offence and Defence
• The Relations of the Offensive and Defensive to each other in Tactics
• The Relations of the Offensive and Defensive to each other in Strategy
• Character of Strategic Defensive
• Extent of the Means of Defence
• Mutual Action and Reaction of Attack and Defence
• Methods of Resistance
• Fortresses
• Fortresses (continuation )
• Retreat into the Interior of the Country
• Arming the Nation
• Defence of a Theatre of War
• Nature of the Strategical Attack
• Of the Objects of Strategical Attack
• Decreasing Force of the Attack
• Culminating Point of the Attack
• Destruction of the Enemy’s Armies
• The Offensive Battle
• Attack of Defensive Positions
• Attack of an Entrenched Camp
• Introduction
• Absolute and Real War
• A Interdependence of the Parts in a War
• B Of the Magnitude of the Object of the War and the Efforts to be Made
• Ends in War More Precisely Defined
• Ends in War More Precisely Defined (continuation)
• B War as an Instrument of Policy
• Plan of War when the Destruction of the Enemy is the Object

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