[vbmoneyspender]

Chandler’s Campaigns of Napoleon is an incredible book. If you haven’t read it, I would very much recommend it. The one problem Napoleon had was that he either couldn’t or wouldn’t teach to others what he was able to do himself. The Germans learnt this lesson and the result was the German General Staff which Scharnhorst (Blucher’s chief of staff) recreated based on the lessons learned from Napoleon. The principal goal of the German General Staff was to identify and then train officers who would excel at fighting on an operational level.

[bruinbirdman]

I don't off hand know the biography I read in the last few years. I think the preface noted that French archives are off limits concerning Napoleon primary sources. Is there other insight?

I mention this because that would mean what we have is the perspective of everyone who was defeated by Napoleon.

They would have an incentive to say he was a genius.

yitbos

[PsyOp]

The Germans learnt this lesson and the result was the German General Staff which Scharnhorst (Blucher’s chief of staff) recreated based on the lessons learned from Napoleon. The principal goal of the German General Staff was to identify and then train officers who would excel at fighting on an operational level.

One of the results of which was Clauswitz.

Clauswitz Quoted.