 | Michael I. Handel - 1989 - 506 pages
...and which may quite appropriately claim that title. It is an analytical investigation leading to a close acquaintance with the subject; applied to experience...history - it leads to thorough familiarity with it. Theory then becomes a guide to anyone who wants to learn about war from books; it will light his way,... | |
 | Williamson Murray - 1996 - 702 pages
...on the virtues and deficiencies of theory, concluded: It is an analytical investigation leading to a close acquaintance with the subject; applied to experience...talent. It will, in fact, become an active ingredient of talent. Theory will have fulfilled its main task when it is used to analyze the constituent elements... | |
 | Williamson R. Murray, Allan R. Millett - 1998 - 452 pages
...theory, and which may quite appropriately claim that title. It is an analytic investigation leading to a close acquaintance with the subject; applied to experience...where the nature of the case admits no arbiter but talent.2 The purpose of this study is to provide insights into the nature of the processes involved... | |
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It is an analytical investigation leading to a close acquaintance with the subject; applied to experience — in our case, to military history — it leads to thorough familiarity with it. The closer it comes to that goal, the more it proceeds from the... 