The Evolution of Operational Art. From Napoleon to the Present

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  1. Napoleon to Louis of Holland, 30 September 1806,Correspondance, vol. xiii, no.
    10920, 292–6.

  2. Clausewitz,On War, 494.

  3. See H. Otto,Gneisenau: Preussens unbequemer Patriot(Bonn: Keil, 1979), 178–9.

  4. Napoleon to Lannes, 7 October 1806,Correspondance, vol. xiii, no. 10961, 320–1.

  5. Napoleon to Soult, 10 October 1806,Correspondance, vol. xiii, no. 10980, 335–6.

  6. Above all, inPre ́cis de l’Art de la Guerre: Des Principales Combinaisons de la Strate ́gie, de
    la Grande Tactique et de la Politique Militaire(Brussels: Meline, Cans et Copagnie,
    1838).

  7. Napoleon to Soult, 10 October 1806,Correspondance, vol. xiii, no. 10977, 332–4.

  8. Ibid., vol. xiii, no. 10980.

  9. On their deliberations, seeNotes on the Battle of Jena, by an Officer of the R. Staff
    Corps (London: Naval and Military Press, n.d. [1827]), 11–17.

  10. Based on van Creveld,Command in War, table 1, 88.

  11. On the way the Prussians fought, see F. N. Maude,The Jena Campaign(London:
    Sonnenschein, 1909), 156.

  12. See Martin van Creveld,The Culture of War(New York, NY: Presidio, 2008), 359–60.

  13. Quoted in Chandler,The Campaigns of Napoleon, 488.

  14. In the case under consideration this started happening from 1809 onwards; on this, see
    R. M. Epstein,Napoleon’s Last Victory and the Emergence of Modern War(Lawrence,
    KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994). By 1813, even Napoleon conceded that ‘ces
    animaux[i.e. the enemy]ont apprenu q’uelques choses’ (these animals have learnt
    something).

  15. Lao Tzu,Tao Te Chin, trans. S. Mitchell, verse no. 11hhttp://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.
    edu/phalsall/texts/taote-v3.htmli.


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