EPTBooks on strategy?
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Hippopotamus
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MoltkeWarding
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sweatpants
United States940 Posts
Great initial choices, btw. To think that the Sun Tzu's principles can be applied to even modern millitary strategy... to even Go and Chess and, of course, ours truly... it's amazing. The universality is really something of beauty. I would recommend Art of War to anyone that plays Starcraft, it describes the very essence of macro. The other two you mentioned.. I haven't read (yet) :p | ||
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Hippopotamus
1914 Posts
There are many good military histories out there which will give you a deeper look into the assumptions and execution of a particular age of warfare. So does pretty much every book about military history focus on covering the strategies and tactics of the war or battle it covers? | ||
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EvilTeletubby
Baltimore, USA22254 Posts
On April 23 2006 10:31 Hippopotamus wrote: So does pretty much every book about military history focus on covering the strategies and tactics of the war or battle it covers? That's pretty much what he said. It also tends to make perfect sense, as the more specific you get in terms of Strats/Tactics used, the more era-specific it's going to get. | ||
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MyLostTemple
United States2921 Posts
hes a god damn nerd dont read military history | ||
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[X]Ken_D
United States4650 Posts
On April 23 2006 10:52 MyLostTemple wrote: my roomate reads military history on the shitter for like 5 hours at a time hes a god damn nerd dont read military history haha invite him to this thread. He'll love Starcraft as well. | ||
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HnR)hT
United States3468 Posts
Actually, if you wanna learn about military strategy and tactics, I think a decent place to start would be a good biography of Napoleon and Lord Nelson. | ||
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MoltkeWarding
5195 Posts
Always an interesting read are the memoirs of the generals of WW2, many surviving German generals published memoirs after the war, however generally they are prejudiced to the view that Hitler's bungling in military affairs lost Germany the war (today this is a very questionable thesis, for a more balanced view, read the records of Hitler's military conferences, now with English translation) Mao Ze Dong has a book on guerilla warfare iirc, but I never read it and don't intend to  Also, you probably know this, but strategy is distinct from tactics. The tactical possibilities allowed by certain technologies, materiel, doctrines and mentalities do much to shape strategy. A classical example of the different mentalities between strategic and tactical application is the use of armour in the Second World War, whereas the allies had a view on the tactical application of armour, the Germans used the abilities of armour to develop an entirely new strategic doctrine based on the speed and piercing power of large armoured formations. | ||
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VdP]EpiphaNy
United Kingdom992 Posts
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lawl mart
United States1289 Posts
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