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Antoine Henri Jomini[ANtwAn´ ANrE´ zhOmEnE´] Pronunciation Key, 1779–1869, Swiss general and military writer. He organized (1799) the militia of the Helvetic Republic and after 1804 served as staff officer in the French army. In Aug., 1813, after a clash with Marshal Berthier, he defected to the enemy, joining the Russian army, in which a commission had previously been arranged. He rose to high rank in Russia, becoming a celebrated authority on strategy. His works include a study of the campaigns of Frederick the Great, TraitE des grandes opErations militaires (5 vol., 1804–10; tr. Treatise on Grand Military Operations); Histoire critique et militaire des guerres de la REvolution (1819–24), on the French Revolutionary Wars; and the influential PrEcis de l'art de la guerre (1836; tr. The Art of War, 1862), which he wrote while military tutor to the future Czar Alexander II. Jomini emphasized the capture of major points and the importance of superior numbers and lines of operation, and he advocated the employment of speed and maneuver rather than battle whenever possible.
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