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Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle
by Ardant du Picq, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph
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- Language
- en
About this book
Creators: Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq (1821-1870), Robert Christie Cotton (1885-1952) [Translator], and John N. Greely (1885-1965) [Translator] "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.) Reading Level: Reading ease score: 62.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Rights: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 1048