Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Friedrich Engels, William Tecumseh Sherman, Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, G. S. Patton Jr.: the author provides detailed portraits of their careers and achievements. He made a name for himself in the 1980s with his spatial alternative strategy. Here, he expands on this further. Here he deals with, among other things: Grande Armée, foragers, horns of a dilemma. The author places the terms in meaningful contexts linked to individuals. He also deals with military equipment, technology and structures, right up to the future of the battle tank, further developments and performance enhancements of competing weapon systems. All this is done with the ease of an expert and woven together with sharp critical insight including satire.
