In Napoleon and the Operational Art of War, the leading scholars of Napoleonic military history provide the most authoritative analysis of Napoleon's battlefield success and ultimate failure in a ...work that features the very best of campaign military history.
...only a handful of references were drawn from recent scholarship by Roger Knight and Alexander Mikaberidze. The problem with Professor Kuehn's research is that the "basic facts" these dated works ...provide are the material from which he draws his conclusions, and they are not always accurate. ...the work is replete with generalizations and oversimplifications that likewise are not always accurate. Kuehn does have moments of brilliance, especially in the chapters on the evolution of the operational art and the naval duel, as well as the short paragraphs he employs to summarize his chapters, but in the end an analysis based on outdated scholarship provides a weak foundation that jeopardizes the stability of the entire structure.
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