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The book presents the reflections of prominent theorists of military art in Germany and Prussia of the seventeenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. Dietrich von Bülow; Karl Ludwig Johann Joseph Laurentius of Austria, Duke of Teschen; Wilhelm von Scherff; Helmut Karl Bernhard von Moltke (Moltke the Elder); Albert Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Boguslawski; Hans Gottlieb Leopold Delbrück; Alfred von Schlieffen. Their ideas, as researchers rightly point out, made a real revolution in approaches to warfare and laid the foundation for modern military art. Particular attention is drawn to the figure of Helmut Karl Bernhard von Moltke (on the cover - in the foreground), a Prussian and German military commander and military theorist who, in his works, focused on new phenomena in the organisation of combat operations, substantiated the effectiveness of the system of preemptive deployment and concentration of troops, sudden military operations by surrounding the enemy from the flanks and its lightning-fast defeat in a general battle. In view of this, the words of another German military theorist, Alfred von Schlieffen, about von Moltke seem quite fair: "His success and fame were made possible by his constant study of the past and the application of what he had learned to the present and the future. If the officers who take the course at the Military Academy imitate this great man, the army will never suffer from a lack of commanders...".
For a wide range of readers interested in the history and theory of military art.