Jomini is best known for his work The Art of War, published in 1838, and the effect of his writings upon future generations of soldiers, strategists, and scholars. He was a man of his times, an age called The Enlightenment, and wrote of war and strategy in a manner consistent with those times. In short, Jomini believed in the reduction of the complexities of warfare into basic principles that, if strictly adhered to, would win any and every war.