Politics, Statecraft and the art of War
Journal: Military Strategy Magazine
Year: 2014

David Martin Jones demonstrates that early modern thinking concerning war and statecraft of a realist or reason of state provenance was acutely aware of the moral and political consequences of the use of force. Thinkers following Machiavelli sought to address questions of the use of force on a practical case-by-case basis, and contemporary leaders of western democracies could learn much from their counsel.