Peter Paret

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Peter Paret


Born
in Berlin, Germany
April 13, 1924

Genre
History, Arts & Photography


American historian who has specialised in German military history in the Napoleonic era and German artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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“Few things in war can be as costly as doctrinal rigidity.”
― Peter Paret, French Revolutionary Warfare from Indochina to Algeria: The Analysis of a Political and Military Doctrine
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“Worse than Munich with worse than Chamberlain!”
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“Clausewitzian strategy of seeking the most expeditious means of weakening the enemy's will to continue the struggle.28”
― Peter Paret, Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
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