Introduction to Military Theory

You can start and finish this challenge whenever you like!

Credit to @GravitysRa1nbow on Twitter. Additional suggestions by @Naval2ndStrike, @RobIsReading42, and myself are listed as optional. Intended to be read in order.

Commentary: Do you like playing HoI4? Do you ever tell yourself "I could have won that battle?" Do you have strong opinions on Napoleon? This reading list is designed for you to stop that.

Challenge Prompts

1. The History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides

2. Anabasis - Xenophon

3. The Annals of Imperial Rome - Tacitus

4. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli

5. The Art of War - Niccolò Machiavelli

6. Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant

7. Elements of the Philosophy of Right - Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel

8. The Art of War - Antoine Henri Jomini

9. On War - Carl Von Clausewitz

10. Any book covering a Napoleonic Campaign will suffice

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