CONTENTS

Maps and Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter One:  Operational Art

Chapter Two:  The War of the First Coalition and the Birth of Modern Operational Art

Chapter Three: Coalition Operational Art in 1799: Suvorov and Masséna in Italy and Switzerland

Chapter Four:  Artists of the Waves: The Royal Navy, Nelson, and Operational Art at Sea

Chapter Five:  Napoleon Ascendant: Jomini and Clausewitz in Harmony

Chapter Six:  The Empires Strike Back: Symmetry Returns to the Operational Level of War

Chapter Seven: Napoleonic Total War in Spain and Russia: 1810–1812

Chapter Eight: Operational Art and the Campaign of 1813

Epilogue: The Twilight of Napoleonic Operational Art: France 1814 and Waterloo

Appendix: The Trachenberg Convention

Notes

Index