Feeding Mars deals with logistics in western warfare across a broader time span and emphasizes the various ways in which the essential materials of war have been produced, acquired, and transported to fighting forces in the field.
This book describes group cohesion in the army of revolutionary France, 1791-94, and focuses on the military system explaining the effectiveness of the Armee du Nord—its tactical system. It deals with motivation, including certain technical subjects, which bear on motivation.
The Bayonets of the Republic challenges the view of the French revolutionary army as an unskilled but fiercely patriotic fighting force that won simply by overwhelming its enemies with bayonet assaults.
Mars must be fed. His tools of war demand huge quantities of fodder, fuel, ammunition, and food. Feeding Mars makes an important contribution to military history and sheds new light on an important, but too often overlooked, aspect of warfare.
An authoritative yet accessible and succinct account of the campaigns fought by Louis XIV, focusing on the French army.