A bibliographical essay

Martin van Creveld is an Israeli military historian. This is his short introduction (perhaps too short) to the history of military strategy, or rather to mostly Western writers on the same. A few Chinese authors are also mentioned. Perhaps most writers on military strategy were Westerners or Chinese? Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Clausewitz, Mahan, Mao and William Lind may be known to a wider audience. Byzantine emperor Maurice or Aeneas the Tactician probably are not. The book lacks context, and says very little about the historical matrix in which the various military writers were situated. Nor does it say anything about geopolitics. “A History of Strategy” is perhaps best seen as a bibliographical essay. I'm not sure how to rate it, but since it might fill a small niche, I suppose I could give it three stars. As a side point, I note that one of the writers discussed by Martin van Creveld is a certain Martin van Creveld…