ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses three major points about Baron Henri Jomini and the strategy of the American Civil War. The first of these is that some authors who have examined Jomini's influence on the American Civil War have not distinguished between Jomini's ideas and the 18th-century strategy practiced by Field Marshal von Daun and other Austrian military leaders and expounded by the Austrian general, the Archduke Charles. The second point is that the strategy of the war is clearly explicable in terms of Jomini's principles and those generals who knew little or nothing of Jomini, waged the war as Jomini would have them wage it. Third, Jomini contributed to the indecisiveness of the war, not because he advocated the place-oriented strategy of Daun and the Archduke Charles, but because his principles were more effective for the defense than for the offense.
