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Loading... The Anatomy of Victory: Battle Tactics 1689-1763 (1990)by Brent Nosworthy
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)355.4Social sciences Public Administration, Military Science Military Science Tactics and strategyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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Organizationally, the book suffers a bit from significant repetition - one wonders if some of the chapters were originally written independently and only later combined into a larger whole. Otherwise it's written well enough, and while there's of necessity a lot of military jargon, it's explained as it's introduced.
The book deals with both tactical doctrine and practice, and the sometimes significant gap between them - official regulation often lagged battlefield practice by decades, and sometimes prescribed impractical or wholly theoretical methods.