ECH 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Pospolite Ruszenie, Antoine-Henri Jomini, French Revolution

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 3320
• Professor: Paul Robinson

Document Summary

Was a member of the fr revolution. Clausewitz said that we should not avoid war, we should head at it straight on. Turning war into a social science, if you treat it this way, you will win. Increasingly important from late 17th century onwards, especially in siege warfare (e. g. vauban). War seen as determined by mathematical principles. Believed strategy is controlled by scientific principles. Urged concentration of force against decisive point (probably a point on enemy"s line of communications). War is an interaction", not the action of a living force upon a lifeless mass, but always the collision of two living forces. ". War is for human beings but is not a precise science. War has moral and psychological factors, war is uncertain. Closer to an art than a science. Mathematical concepts of war are wrong bc they are one sided.