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Halberd and pike
the Cité
Mongol Empire: map
Cardinal de Richelieu
Henri, baron de Jomini
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Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]
Anna Ella Carroll
American political pamphleteer
Bernard Brodie
American military strategist
Sir Basil Liddell Hart
British military historian
Ōmura Masujirō.
Ōmura Masujirō
Japanese military strategist
Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu
Chinese strategist
Khalīl Ibrāhīm al-Wazīr
Palestinian leader
Genda Minoru
Japanese naval officer
Erich Ludendorff
Erich Ludendorff
German general
Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz
Prussian general
Thomas C. Schelling
American economist and game theorist
Henri, baron de Jomini
Henri, baron de Jomini
French general and historian
André Beaufre
French general
Kahn, Herman
Herman Kahn
American futurist
Adam Heinrich Dietrich, baron von Bülow
Prussian soldier
Polyaenus
Macedonian rhetorician

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