Warfare in the Age of Reason. Now that’s
a fun oxymoron! I mean, what exactly
about standing perfectly still, shoulder-to-shoulder, in well-dressed ranks
trading volleys of musket fire sounds reasonable to you? At any rate, the period receives little
attention in war gaming. Thus, one of
the more brilliant military tacticians in history, Frederick der Grosse, is often ignored. Too bad.
Because he didn’t get the moniker “Great” for nothing. One of the ablest practitioners of “less is
more,” he expanded his tiny nation threefold and created a new kingdom almost
entirely through the use of the small, yet superb, army inherited from
daddy. Always outnumbered and
strategically besieged, he nonetheless won victory after victory through
decisive action and expert maneuvering with the best drilled and most
disciplined troops on the continent. Now
you can fill his boots. Or get kicked by
them.