There are several things that are important when studying any military battle or campaign.\u00a0 There are also several versions of this list and which list you use essentially depends on personal preference.\u00a0 What follows is my personal list of what for lack of a better term can be called Military Principles.\u00a0 These are things that in my opinion the victorious commander and his army must get right to be victorious.\u00a0 Let me clarify that, the victorious military force must get more of these right than his opponent to win.\u00a0 It is rare indeed that any commander or army gets every one of them right every time.<\/p>\n
If you study military history, at a minimum you should have a grounding in military principles that includes what the terms mean and what both other historians and what military generals and commentators mean when they use these terms.\u00a0 At times this can be difficult because not every country uses the same principles and it is certain that every historian does not use the same principles.\u00a0 To add to the confusion depending on the system being used the same term can mean something slightly different.\u00a0 Because of the time period I will mostly post about I am going to describe in-depth the principles used by France, Britain, Austria-Hungary, and Germany while throwing in a discussion of modern American usage.<\/p>\n
I will go down the list in a series of posts detailing one national system per posts with a final posts that attempts to tie it all together and talk about the method I use which is kind of a hodgepodge of all the national systems described with some subtractions and additions based on experience and inclination.\u00a0 I will also explain how I analyze a battlefield.<\/p>\n
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