Napoleon on the Art of War

Jay Luvaas

• Publisher: Free Press
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN: 9780684872711
• eBook ISBN: 9780743216845
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

Napoleon. The passage of time has not dimmed the power of his name. A century and a half after his death, Napoleon remains the greatest military genius of the modern world. Yet unlike Machiavelli, Clausewitz, or Sun Tzu, his name has not crowned any single literary work. The subject of thousands of biographies and treatises on warfare, he is the author of none. Until now.
The great general and conqueror of Europe may not have written any books, but he was a prolific writer. Thousands of his missives to subordinates survive, and these documents reflect the broad range of a fearless and incisive mind. From them, military historian Jay Luvaas has wrought a seamless whole. Luvaas has spent decades culling, editing, and arranging Napoleon's thoughts into coherent essays and arguments. In the remarkable result. Napoleon speaks without interruption in a work that will forever change the way we view him.
Luvaas covers every subject Napoleon wrote about, from the need for preparation -- "Simply gathering men together does not produce real soldiers; drill, instruction, and skill is what makes real soldiers." -- to the essence of victory -- "To win is not enough: It is necessary to profit from success." On education, leadership, strategy and history, Napoleon speaks with an authority unique to those who have ruled a continent. In these pages lies the wisdom of a giant who knew life's greatest achievements and its lowest lows: triumph and conquest, exile and disgrace.
Whether you are a student of military strategy or a business professional eager to learn from the greatest manager of personnel that the world has ever known, Napoleon on the Art of War has something for you. From the specifies of Napoleon's use of cavalry and unique reliance upon artillery to an all-encompassing vision of life from a man of supreme confidence and success, you'll find it here. This is the only straightforward explanation of Napoleon's campaigns and philosophy by the man himself.

INDEX

Albania,

Albergotti, General,

Alexander the Great,

Alps,

Alsace,

American Revolution,

ammunition,

Anhalt-Dessau, Prince Maurice of,

Apraxin, Marshal,

AragÓn,

Arenberg, Duke of,

army,

of Frederick the Great,

muster rolls of,

of observation,

recruitment of,

of reserve,

size of,

training of,

see also soldiers

army, organization of,

army size and,

of 80,000 effectives,

of modern corps,

stages of,

Army, U.S.,

war as defined by,

army in the field,

ammunition for,

in campaign of 1805,

line of communication for,

march discipline of,

marching battalions of,

medical services for, see hospitals occupation of conquered territory by,

in Russian campaign,

transport of,

see also line of operation

artillery,

ammunition for,

composition of,

importance of,

officers of,

school for,

training of,

Augereau, Pierre-François-Charles,

Austerlitz, battle of,

Austria,

Dalmatia and,

Frederick the Great and,

recruitment in,

Bailén, battle of,

Barnard, John G.,

battalion square,

Bavaria,

Bayard, Chevalier,

bayonets,

Beauharnais, Eugène de,

Belle-Isle, Marshal,

Bernadotte, Jean-Baptiste Jules,

Berthier, Louis-Alexandre,

Bertrand, Henri-Gatien,

Bessières, Jean-Baptiste,

Bevern, Duke of,

Blenheim,

Bohemia,

Bonaparte, Joseph,

Bonnet, General,

Breslau, battle of,

Browne, Marshal,

Brün...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Colophon
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• INTRODUCTION
• I. Creating the Fighting Force
• II. Preparations for
• III. A Military Education
• IV. The Combat Arms
• V. Generalship and the Art of Command
• VI. Army Organization
• VII. Strategy
• VIII. Fortification
• IX. The Army in the Field
• X. The Operational Art
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index