Beatrice Heuser is chair of International Relations at the University of Reading. She is the author of many books including Reading Clausewitz (2002), The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in Their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context (1999), Nuclear Mentalities? Strategies and Belief Systems in Britain, France and the FRG (1998), and NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000 (1997).

In this thoughtful, clear and interesting work, Reading University's Professor of International Relations, Beatrice Heuser, offers a significant introduction to Western European thinking on war and the military.

• Preface and Acknowledgments1 Introduction: Themes and Context of Literature on Strategy2 Raimond de Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux (1548)3 François de Saillans—Bertrand de Loque (1589)4 Matthew Sutcliffe (1593)5 Don Bernardino de Mendoza (1595)6 Paul Hay du Chastelet (1668)7 Santa Cruz de Marcenado and Zanthier (1724–30/1775)8 Count de Guibert (1772)9 August Rühle von Lilienstern (1816)NotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Beatrice Heuser is chair of International Relations at the University of Reading. She is the author of many books including Reading Clausewitz (2002), The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in Their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context (1999), Nuclear Mentalities? Strategies and Belief Systems in Britain, France and the FRG (1998), and NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000 (1997).

In this thoughtful, clear and interesting work, Reading University's Professor of International Relations, Beatrice Heuser, offers a significant introduction to Western European thinking on war and the military.

• Preface and Acknowledgments1 Introduction: Themes and Context of Literature on Strategy2 Raimond de Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux (1548)3 François de Saillans—Bertrand de Loque (1589)4 Matthew Sutcliffe (1593)5 Don Bernardino de Mendoza (1595)6 Paul Hay du Chastelet (1668)7 Santa Cruz de Marcenado and Zanthier (1724–30/1775)8 Count de Guibert (1772)9 August Rühle von Lilienstern (1816)NotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Beatrice Heuser is chair of International Relations at the University of Reading. She is the author of many books including Reading Clausewitz (2002), The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in Their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context (1999), Nuclear Mentalities? Strategies and Belief Systems in Britain, France and the FRG (1998), and NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000 (1997).

In this thoughtful, clear and interesting work, Reading University's Professor of International Relations, Beatrice Heuser, offers a significant introduction to Western European thinking on war and the military.

• Preface and Acknowledgments1 Introduction: Themes and Context of Literature on Strategy2 Raimond de Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux (1548)3 François de Saillans—Bertrand de Loque (1589)4 Matthew Sutcliffe (1593)5 Don Bernardino de Mendoza (1595)6 Paul Hay du Chastelet (1668)7 Santa Cruz de Marcenado and Zanthier (1724–30/1775)8 Count de Guibert (1772)9 August Rühle von Lilienstern (1816)NotesSelected BibliographyIndex