For more than two generations following the Napoleonic Wars of the early nineteenth century, military leaders and students around the world studied the works of Antoine Jomini as the Bible of modern warfare. Jomini’s writings reduced the conduct of war to a few guiding principles, foremost of which was that armies should strike enemy weak points in mass to quickly achieve victory. Generals on both sides of the American Civil War and European leaders in the various conflicts of the mid-nineteenth century carried Jomini’s Summary of the Art of Warfare as their primary guide to conducting large-scale operadons.<\/p>