Military Effectiveness Volume 3 The Second World War

Author : Allan R. Millett,Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1139502123

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Military Effectiveness: Volume 3, The Second World War by Allan R. Millett,Williamson Murray Pdf

This three-volume study examines the questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Italy in the period from 1914 to 1945. Leading military historians deal with the different national approaches to war and military power at the tactical, operational, strategic, and political levels. They form the basis for a fundamental re-examination of how military organizations have performed in the first half of the twentieth century. Volume 3 covers World War II. Volumes 1 and 2 address address World War I and the interwar period, respectively. Now in a new edition, with a new introduction by the editors, these classic volumes will remain invaluable for military historians and social scientists in their examination of national security and military issues. They will also be essential reading for future military leaders at Staff and War Colleges.

Author : Allan Reed Millett,Allan R. Millett,Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521425919

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Military Effectiveness by Allan Reed Millett,Allan R. Millett,Williamson Murray Pdf

Examines questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the US, Great Britain, Japan and Italy between 1914 and 1945.

Author : Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139499040

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War, Strategy, and Military Effectiveness by Williamson Murray Pdf

This collection of articles represents Professor Williamson Murray's efforts to elucidate the role that history should play in thinking about both the present and the future. They reflect three disparate themes in Professor Murray's work: his deep fascination with history and those who have acted in the past; his fascination with the similarities in human behavior between the past and the present; and his belief that the study of military and strategic history can be of real use to those who will confront the daunting problems of war and peace in the twenty-first century. The first group of essays addresses the relevance of history to an understanding of the present and to an understanding of the possibilities of the future. The second addresses the possible direct uses of history to think through the problems involved in the creation of effective military institutions. The final group represents historical case studies that serve to illuminate the present.

Author : Allan Reed Millett
Publisher : Unwin Hyman
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 0044458452

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Military Effectiveness by Allan Reed Millett Pdf

This work constitutes the third part of a three-volume set which analyzes the strategic and military problems of the era spanning the two world wars. This book covers World War II.

Author : Allan Reed Millett,Williamson Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : 0044450532

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Military Effectiveness by Allan Reed Millett,Williamson Murray Pdf

Author : J. L. Granatstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X002397109

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The Generals by J. L. Granatstein Pdf

Author : Robert C. Engen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773581753

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Canadians Under Fire by Robert C. Engen Pdf

In Canadians Under Fire Robert Engen explores the dynamics of what combat looked like to Canada's infantrymen during the Second World War. Analyzing unexamined battle experience questionnaires from over 150 Canadian infantry officers, Engen argues for a reassessment of the tactical behaviour of Canadian soldiers in the Second World War. The evidence also shows that Marshall's theory of non-participation in combat by Allied forces is demonstrably false: Canadian soldiers took a continued and aggressive part in the fighting.

Author : Michael C. Desch
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801896835

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Power and Military Effectiveness by Michael C. Desch Pdf

Since 1815 democratic states have emerged victorious from most wars, leading many scholars to conclude that democracies are better equipped to triumph in armed conflict with autocratic and other non-representative governments. Political scientist Michael C. Desch argues that the evidence and logic of that supposition, which he terms “democratic triumphalism,” are as flawed as the arguments for the long-held and opposite belief that democracies are inherently disadvantaged in international relations. Through comprehensive statistical analysis, a thorough review of two millennia of international relations thought, and in-depth case studies of modern-era military conflicts, Desch finds that the problems that persist in prosecuting wars—from building up and maintaining public support to holding the military and foreign policy elites in check—remain constant regardless of any given state’s form of government. In assessing the record, he finds that military effectiveness is almost wholly reliant on the material assets that a state possesses and is able to mobilize. Power and Military Effectiveness is an instructive reassessment of the increasingly popular belief that military success is one of democracy’s many virtues. International relations scholars, policy makers, and military minds will be well served by its lessons.

Author : Christopher Tuck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000598070

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Understanding Land Warfare by Christopher Tuck Pdf

This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The second edition has been updated and revised, and includes new chapters on non-western perspectives and hybrid warfare. Drawing on a range of case studies spanning the First World War through to contemporary conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh, the book explores what is unique about the land domain and how this has shaped the theory and practice of military operations conducted upon it. It also looks at land warfare across the spectrum of its conduct, including conventional campaigning, counterinsurgency, and peace support and stabilisation operations. Key themes and debates identified and analysed include: the tensions between change and continuity; the role of technology in land warfare; the relevance of culture and context; the difficulties in translating theory into effective military practice; in-depth discussions on issues of immediate contemporary significance, including hybrid warfare, emerging military technologies, and the military reform processes of the US, Russian, and Chinese land forces. This book will be essential reading for military practitioners and for students of land warfare, military history, war studies and strategic studies.

Author : Director of the Uno Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Professor of History Allan R Millett,Williamson Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1139127292

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Military Effectiveness, Volume 2 by Director of the Uno Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Professor of History Allan R Millett,Williamson Murray Pdf

Examines questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the US, Great Britain, Japan and Italy between 1914 and 1945.

Author : Alexander Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107020795

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The Red Army and the Second World War by Alexander Hill Pdf

A major new account of the Soviet Union at war which charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army.

Author : Allan R. Millett,Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521425896

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Military Effectiveness by Allan R. Millett,Williamson Murray Pdf

Examines questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the US, Great Britain, Japan and Italy between 1914 and 1945.

Author : Joseph Moretz
Publisher : Wolverhampton Military Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1911096362

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Towards a Wider War by Joseph Moretz Pdf

Towards a Wider War examines British policy, grand strategy, military operations and tactical execution in the critical period of the 'Phoney War' - culminating in Scandinavia and the forlorn campaign in Norway. Recognizing that political and military leaders rarely plan for failure, the work assesses the strengths and weaknesses of British performance in the last year of peace and during the first critical months of war. Fundamentally, major problems were evidenced across the spectrum of war, but perhaps the greatest failing demonstrated remained in the higher direction of war and the mismatch between avowed strategy and operational capability. Based on official and unofficial records - and a review of the existing secondary literature - Towards a Wider War offers a reasoned and balanced assessment of British war-making at the start of the Second World War. Following a summation of the actual experience of war, the work investigates and assesses the style and manner of Britain's higher direction of war and the effectiveness of each of the services at the strategic, operational and tactical levels of war - as well as their abilities to cooperate in the joint environment. Along the way, fresh insight is offered into the centrality of economic warfare in British planning; the place of the War Cabinet in executing oversight of the war; and the workings of the Chiefs of Staff Committee and the role of the Joint Planning Committee. Of the services, the Royal Navy was most prepared for war in a European theatre in 1939. Force structure alone made this so, yet German aggression against Poland demonstrated the limitations of maritime power. Both the British Army and the Royal Air Force were undergoing major expansion programs when war arose and, for the former, it was thought three years would be required before deficiencies were alleviated. Sustaining public support during the interim was by no means assured - and in the background stood the necessity to avoid another bloodletting on the Western Front. These factors loomed large in London in late 1939 and that Italy - a presumed belligerent - had opted for neutrality painted initial strategic plans false. Increasingly, Britain (and France) looked to defeat Germany by removing her access to those commodities that made modern warfare possible: petroleum, iron ore and finance. That it increasingly appeared Nazi Germany was allied to Communist Russia only made the problem of making war more vexing. Towards a Wider War offers a unique single-volume analysis of British war-making at the pivotal beginning of the Second World War when all remained to be won -- or lost -- in the far north.

Author : James B Wood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461638087

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Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War by James B Wood Pdf

In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. He argues instead that it was only when the Japanese military prematurely abandoned its original sound strategic plan—to secure the resources Japan needed and establish a viable defensible perimeter for the Empire—that the Allies were able to regain the initiative and lock Japanese forces into a war of attrition they were not prepared to fight. The book persuasively shows how the Japanese army and navy had both the opportunity and the capability to have fought a different and more successful war in the Pacific that could have influenced the course and outcome of World War II. It is therefore a study both of Japanese defeat and of what was needed to achieve a potential Japanese victory, or at the very least, to avoid total ruin. Wood's argument does not depend on signal individual historical events or dramatic accidents. Instead it examines how familiar events could have b

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004255708

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Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945 by Anonim Pdf

Allied Fighting Effectiveness is a collection of scholarly papers focusing on a variety of different aspects of the major campaigns of North Africa, Sicily and Italy, ranging from operation TORCH to the end of the war in Europe.