Jean Colin (also Jean-Alphonse and Jean-Lambert-Alphonse; December 27, 1864 – December 30, 1917) was a French general and
military writer
The following is a list of military writers, alphabetical by last name:
A
* Pierre Emmanuel Albert, Baron Ducasse
* Stephen Ambrose
* Raymond Aron
B
* Andrew Bacevich
* Ali Bader Iraq war
* Bao Ninh – ''The Sorrow of War'' (about the Viet ...
. He has been judged "one of the brilliant members of the French General Staff before 1914."
[''The Literature on War: Part II'', William O. Shanahan, The Review of Politics, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Jul., 1942), pp. 327-346]
Educated at the École polytechnique,
he worked in the history service of the army from 1900 to 1906. He served in World War I, was made a
général de brigade in 1917 and was killed that year in
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He translated
Clausewitz
Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz ( , ; born Carl Philipp Gottlieb Clauswitz; 1 July 1780 – 16 November 1831) was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (in modern terms meaning psychological) and political aspe ...
's ''Der Feldzug von 1796 in Italien'' (1859) as ''Études sur la campagne de 1796-1797 en Italie'' (1889).
His best known work is ''Les transformations de la Guerre'' (Paris, 1911), translated as ''France and the Next War'' or as ''Transformations of War'' by L.H.R. Pope-Hennessy (London, 1912). His criticisms of
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...
and the offensive school were controversial.
Other works
* ''Les Campagnes du
maréchal de Saxe'' (1901–1906)
* ''L'éducation militaire de Napoléon''
* ''Louis XV et les Jacobites: Le projet de débarquement en Angleterre de 1743–1744.'' Paris: Librairie Militarie R. Chapelot et Cie., 1901.
References
* ''The sword and the pen : selections from the world's greatest military writings'', prepared by Sir Basil Liddell Hart ; edited by Adrian Liddell Hart. Crowell, NY, 1976.
*Christopher Bassford, ''Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). Ch. 10
*http://www.ecole-superieure-de-guerre.fr/promotions/biographie/799
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French military personnel killed in World War I, Colin, jean (general)
Colin, Jean (general)
Colin, Jean (general)
1917 deaths
1864 births
French male non-fiction writers
19th-century French military personnel
French Army generals of World War I