This detailed and comprehensive book offers the first modern biography of Helmuth Von Moltke, a major progenitor of the processes modern great powers use to engage in large-scale warfare. Drawing upon
Bucholz (State U. of New York, Brockport) examines the military strategy of the Prussian commander Helmuth von Moltke. The volume begins with a discussion of the legacy of Napoleon as a strategist and
The Prussian army invented modern war processes, and Helmuth von Moltke (1800 - 1891) was the first modern war planner. His accomplishment was to develop, bring to fruition and validate the war proce
