Thomas Phillips's 1940 anthology collecting the foundational military strategy texts — Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Vegetius's Military Institutions of the Romans, Maurice de Saxe's Reveries on the Art of War, Frederick the Great's Military Instructions, and Napoleon's Maxims — making the canon of military strategy accessible in a single volume.
Made the foundational canon of military strategy accessible in translation — allowing readers to see the continuity of strategic thought across 2,500 years — and demonstrating that the same principles (know your enemy, concentrate force, preserve initiative) recur in every era.
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