I'm currently looking at John Alger's The Quest for Victory: The History of the Principles of War. It covers similar ground as Azar Gat's older A History of Military Thought, but sheds more light on roughly 250 years worth of trying to teach didactic principles of war. Disregard the one rather ad hominem Amazon review, it is worth picking up. A full review will follow when I'm done. I'm still working my way through Rudolf von Caemmerer's The Development of Strategical Science in the Nineteenth Century.
As you can tell from the rather antiquarian wording the book was published in 1905 and I've downloaded the Google Books as an EPUB to my iPhone. It makes a great way to pass time on the DC metro, where it's otherwise hard to read books while standing up or dodging spitballs from little children. This may take a while to finish due to the format (iPhone reading is slower than book book reading), but it has plenty of insights as well on the campaign science of that century. Moreover, Caemmerer is rather ruthless in debunking the Napoleonic strategies that still had admirers in his day, pointing out what many generals would painfully learn in 1914.
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