The great military theorist Carl von Clausewitz is a household name among students of military science, and not only that–his seminal work Vom Krieg (On War) is also very well known among fiction writers who include war as a subject matter within their stories. One of the most important principled he outlined in his book [...]
The knight, or rather the mounted man-at-arms, has always been a controversial figure in medieval military history. It began with the traditional view of the lance-armed knight on a large horse charging his way through every obstacle1). In the latter half of the 20th century this was challenged by a revisionist opinion stating that castles [...]
The academic community of military historians has long recognized that pitched battles were not the dominant factor in warfare before the rise of battle-focused Napoleonic doctrines at the end of the 18th century. Instead, wars before the Napoleonic era (and even later outside Europe) were dominated by indirect confrontations through raiding, posturing, and diplomatic bluffs, [...]
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