Niccolo Machiavelli's iArt of Wari is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds in history and said to have influenced no lesser lights than Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the iArt of Wari is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history and theory of war in the West-and for readers of iThe Prince and Discourse on Livyi who seek to explore more fully the connection between war and politics in Machiavelli's thought. p Machiavelli scholar Christopher Lynch offers a sensitive and entirely new translation of the iArt of Wari, faithful to the original but rendered in modern, idiomatic English. Lynch's fluid translation helps readers appreciate anew Machiavelli's brilliant treatments of the relationships between war and politics, civilians and the military, and technology and tactics. Clearly laying out the fundamentals of military organization and strategy, Machiavelli marshals a veritable armory of precept