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100 1 _aArdant du Picq, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph,
_d1821-1870
245 1 0 _aBattle Studies; Ancient and Modern Battle
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2005
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Studies
500 _aRelease date is 2005-01-01
508 _aText file produced by Suzanne L. Shell, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aMilitary art and science
653 _aBattles
700 1 _aCotton, Robert Christie,
_d1885-1952
700 1 _aGreely, John N.
_q(John Nesmith),
_d1885-1965
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7294
999 _c49285
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