Essays on Military Strategy

The Napoleonic Wars in the 18th and 19th century not only produced one of the greatest military geniuses of all but also revolutionized warfare. Napoleon is regarded as a great strategist who made use of the existing military strategies. During this period, two great thinkers, Carl von Clausewitz and Antoine Henri Jomini, recorded and interpreted the military strategies being employed by Napoleon. Clausewitz and Jomini are probably the greatest military thinkers to emerge from the Napoleonic era. After the Napoleonic wars ended, Clausewitz and Jomini sought to explain the emerging warfare by writing new doctrines and truth about war. ...

History

United States Military Strategy and Policy 1. Describe Washington’s strategy in the American Revolution.

George Washington wore the British and their Hessian mercenaries down small battle by small battle with his Strategy of Attrition. There were practical reasons for using this strategy. The Continental Army had 220,000 but only about half of those soldiers had militia training while on the other hand the British had 162,000 well trained British troops and German mercenaries. The odds against the American revolutionaries were frightening because the New England soldiers were not an army yet when Washington arrived in ...

1. What was George Washington's strategy in the American Revolution (His Attrition Strategy)? Do you think he was an effective general? George Washington used an attrition strategy during the American Revolution (Maj 1993). This strategy focused on erosion of the military power of the enemy, as well as the will of the enemy to resist defeat. Further, the strategy involved use of many resources. Yes, George Washington was an effective general since he was able to identify the main weaknesses of his army and used these weaknesses to fight the enemy until he won. These weaknesses included a ...