Battle Studies; Ancient and Modern Battle by Ardant du Picq
"Battle Studies; Ancient and Modern Battle" by Ardant du Picq is an unfinished military treatise written in the 1860s by a French Army colonel killed in the Franco-Prussian War. Based on empirical studies of historical battles, the work argues that moral force—not tactics or technology—determines victory in combat. Du Picq examines the human element in warfare, emphasizing that understanding the soldier's psychology is essential for military leadership. The book became influential at
France's war college before World War I. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Ardant du Picq, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph, 1821-1870 |
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| Translator | Cotton, Robert Christie, 1885-1952 |
| Translator | Greely, John N. (John Nesmith), 1885-1965 |
| Title | Battle Studies; Ancient and Modern Battle |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Studies |
| Credits |
Text file produced by Suzanne L. Shell, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 62.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | U: Military science |
| Subject | Military art and science |
| Subject | Battles |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 7294 |
| Release Date | Jan 1, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Nov 21, 2019 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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