At first sight nothing can appear more unpractical, less promising of useful result, than to approach the study of war with a theory.
<p>The term military theory is used in this book to include both the study of military affairs and its findings in the form of concepts, categories, propositions, laws and theorems. There have been many changes not only in this analytical apparatus but also in the very conception of military theory: the subject of the discipline, its scope structure and place among social sciences have al…