TY - BOOK AU - Ardant du Picq,Charles Jean Jacques Joseph AU - Cotton,Robert Christie AU - Greely,John N. TI - Battle Studies; Ancient and Modern Battle AV - U PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Military art and science KW - Battles N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Studies; Release date is 2005-01-01; Text file produced by Suzanne L. Shell, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7294 ER -