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On the Art of War is a military work by N. Machiavelli of Italy. It is also translated as "On the Art of War" and "The Art of War".

Machiavelli, a Renaissance political thinker and historian. The book was written in the genre of dialogues in 1519-1520, and has been translated into several languages in addition to the Italian text. The book ****7 volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 focus on the military service system and training of the army, while volume 3 concentrates on battles, and later volumes discuss camping, marching, and city building.

The Art of War bears the traces of a copy of the ancient Roman military writer Vergatius' book "On the Military". Due to the limitations of the times, the author underestimated the role of firearms and emphasized infantry over cavalry in his assessment of the value of the role of military types. Nevertheless, the book advocates the use of infantry, emphasizing the decisive role of the battle in the war and other ideas, compared with the cavalry as the core, do not seek a decisive battle of the European medieval military theory, is still not a progress.