"Napoleon’s Grand Military and Diplomatic Strategy: ..." Topic

….Divide the Great Powers; Demonstrate Strength; Control Negotiations

"Napoleon's military and diplomatic strategy was offensive, quick and decisive. Like Caesar, he longed not only for political victory at home, but to send to Paris news of great foreign conquests. Numerous time he successfully maneuvered to divide a unified enemy and then picked each off individually. He used fear to impose peace, concluded treaties with countries who had seen his power, used the media to spread his message, and worked to prevent or split coalitions. He moved his armies faster than anyone had before. This is what he did when as a general, at the start of his rise, he took Italy, sending the Austrians packing and winning portions of northwest Europe besides…"
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I have always believed that his biggest mistake was not dismantling the Austrian Empire after Austerlitz. This would have dissuaded the Prussians and left England with only one effective ally – Russia. The allies would have hanged him if the situation was reversed. Perhaps he wanted to be accepted as an equal dynastic ruler. In any event, that certainly wound up biting him in the ass.

Good point… but his fail became when he decided to invade Spain and put in charge his elder brother… if he choose weak Fernando instead of him and one great Marshal (Murat?) as advisor… Spain could be an Allied forever… so England have to insist in the Netherlands to invade…

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