3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Georgian-American historian at Louisiana State — author of The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History — the most comprehensive single-volume account of the Napoleonic Wars as a global rather than European event.
Swedish king and military genius who spent his entire reign at war — defeating Denmark, Russia (Narva), and Poland in rapid succession before his catastrophic defeat at Poltava (1709) and eventual death during the siege of Fredriksten — representing the archetype of the warrior-king who wins every battle and loses the war.
Swedish king and military genius who transformed Sweden into a major European power, revolutionized warfare with combined-arms tactics (integrated infantry-cavalry-artillery), and died at the Battle of Lützen fighting for the Protestant cause in the Thirty Years War — called the Lion of the North and the Father of Modern Warfare.