No man in the history of war has exerted a greater influence on the development of modern warfare than Napoleon Banaparte. No man has been more responsible for Napoleon’s influence than Antoine-Henri Jomini. It has been said with good reason that many a civil war general went into battle with a sword in the one hand and Jomini’s The Art of War in the other. Jomini’s writings were the means by which Napoleonic technique was transfused into military thought ...
