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Jomini +‎ -an

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Jominian (comparative more Jominian, superlative most Jominian)

  1. Of or pertaining to Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779–1869), military general and celebrated writer on the Napoleonic art of war.
    • 1916 January, Arthur L. Conger, “Moltke's Plans of Campaign”, in Military Historian and Economist, volume 1, page 297:
      The Jominian and Clausewitzian conceptions, with their checkerboard and geometrical analogies, were plausible enough when applied to the medium sized armies operating in the French-German-Italian theatre of the Napoleonic period.