Jomini
For better of worse the bloodless/limited war theories he came up with sold well during his time and keep creeping back in. Jomini called for small (compared to Nap's forces) and well trained proffesional forces fighting for limited political objectives (minor adjustments of borders) and relying on manuever warfare to force the enemy into bad positions and to threaten their supply lines without risking ones own. He called for a general staff, medical service and humane punishments for soldiers.
And better yet he wrote his thoughts down giving a sort of manual (to those that could read French and had the time to actually read him). And he had his famous scientifc approach to warfare putting it all down in rational science.
He was a legend in his own time and was "read" up until the 1950s (bad translations made it so he wasn't really read - more quoted). Claus died an unknown until mentioned in 1870 by Moltke which caused people to "read" him.
In the era of the restoration he promoted small armies fighting for limited gains with limited bloodshed. Wanted to restrain the bloodshed of armed conflict. The nation in arms of the revolutionary war was to be a militia at best. He had a niche which was pointing in a different direction and reaching back to what was before Nap.
A very favorible review I found online... I'll post a very unfavorible review if someone wants...
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Antoine Henri De Jomini:The Art of War eBook
The art of war, independently of its political and moral relations, consists of five principal parts, viz.: Strategy, Grand Tactics, Logistics, Tactics of the different arms, and the Art of the Engineer. We will treat of the first three branches, and begin by defining them.
Written by: Antoine Henri De Jomini, Horace E. Cocroft (Commentary), G. H. Mendell (Translator), W. P. Craighill (Translator)
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"In 1991, General Norman Schwarzkopf drove Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait using several specific strategies. Schwarzkopf established a temporary supply base in the Saudi Arabian desert to form a base of operations for the U.S. Seventh Corps and then used Marine and Arab coalition allies in a pinning operation against Iraqi troops in Kuwait while the Seventh Corps made a turning movement into the Iraqi rear. Having captured its limited, geographic objective, the coalition called a halt to the war. Schwarzkopf's strategies came straight from Antoine-Henri Jomini's The Art of War, which is the foundation of professional military education in the Western world." - from the new introduction....Antoine Henri de Jomini's The Art of War is considered by many to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactics. His impact on professional military thinking, doctrine and vocabulary is unparalleled by any other military theoretician. Though authors like Clausewitz may be better known to some, few can match the breadth of practical advice offered by the man who served both Napoleon and the Russian Tsar....This edition faithfully reproduces Jomini's seminal work, beautifully reformatted and typeset and includes a new introduction and brief chapter by chapter commentary.
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