Download or read book Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age written by Peter Paret and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-30 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic characteristics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries.