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Author : Williamson R. Murray,Allan R. Millett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521637600
A study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s.
Author : Williamson R. Murray,Allan R. Millett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107268623
In 1914, the armies and navies that faced each other were alike right down to the strengths of their companies and battalions and the designs of their battleships and cruisers. Differences were of degree rather than essence. During the interwar period, however, the armed forces grew increasingly asymmetrical, developing different approaches to the same problems. This study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s explores differences in exploitation by the seven major military powers. The comparative essays investigate how and why innovation occurred or did not occur, and explain much of the strategic and operative performance of the Axis and Allies in World War II. The essays focus on several instances of how military services developed new technology and weapons and incorporated them into their doctrine, organisation and styles of operations.
Author : Williamson R. Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107269962
A study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s, first published in 1996.
Author : Williamson Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1107266882
A study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s, first published in 1996.
Author : MacGregor Knox,Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 052180079X
This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.
Author : Stephen Peter Rosen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501732317
How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace and times of war? In Winning the Next War, Stephen Peter Rosen argues that armies and navies are not forever doomed to "fight the last war." Rather, they are able to respond to shifts in the international strategic situation. He also discusses the changing relationship between the civilian innovator and the military bureaucrat. In peacetime, Rosen finds, innovation has been the product of analysis and the politics of military promotion, in a process that has slowly but successfully built military capabilities critical to American military success. In wartime, by contrast, innovation has been constrained by the fog of war and the urgency of combat needs. Rosen draws his principal evidence from U.S. military policy between 1905 and 1960, though he also discusses the British army's experience with the battle tank during World War I.
Author : David E. Johnson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467110
The U.S. Army entered World War II unprepared. In addition, lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground and one in the air. Previous commentators have blamed Congressional funding and public apathy for the army's unprepared state. David E. Johnson believes instead that the principal causes were internal: army culture and bureaucracy, and their combined impact on the development of weapons and doctrine. Johnson examines the U.S. Army's innovations for both armor and aviation between the world wars, arguing that the tank became a captive of the conservative infantry and cavalry branches, while the airplane's development was channeled by air power insurgents bent on creating an independent air force. He maintains that as a consequence, the tank's potential was hindered by the traditional arms, while air power advocates focused mainly on proving the decisiveness of strategic bombing, neglecting the mission of tactical support for ground troops. Minimal interaction between ground and air officers resulted in insufficient cooperation between armored forces and air forces. Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers makes a major contribution to a new understanding of both the creation of the modern U.S. Army and the Army's performance in World War II. The book also provides important insights for future military innovation.
Author : Allan R. Millett,Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1139502123
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 : Frank Ledwidge
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Air warfare
ISBN : 9780198804314
Aerial warfare has dominated Western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping global history of air warfare, introducing the major battles, crises, and controversies where air power has taken centre stage.Ae
Author : Timothy Moy
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 158544104X
The American military establishment is intimately tied to its technology, although the nature of those ties has varied enormously from service to service. The air force evokes images of pilots operating hightech weapons systems, striking precisely from out of the blue to lay waste to enemy installations. The fundamental icon for the Marine Corps is a wave of riflemen hitting the beaches from rugged landing craft and slogging their way ashore under enemy fire. How did these very different relationships with technology develop? During the interwar years, from 1920 to 1940, leaders from the Army Air Corps and the Marine Corps recreated their agencies based on visions of new military technologies. In War Machines, Timothy Moy examines these recreations and explores how factors such as bureaucratic pressure, institutional culture, and America's technological enthusiasm shaped these leaders' choices. The very existence of the Army Air Corps was based on a new technology, the airplane. As the Air Corps was forced to compete for money and other resources during the years after World War I, Air Corps leaders carved out a military niche based on hightech precision bombing. The Marine Corps focused on amphibious, firstwave assault using sturdy, graceless, and easytoproduce landing craft. Moy's astute analysis makes it clear that studying the processes that shaped the Army Air Corps and Marine Corps is fundamental to our understanding of technology and the military at the beginning of the twentyfirst century.
Author : Thomas G. Mahnken
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0801439868
Thomas G. Mahnken sheds light on the shadowy world of U.S. intelligence-gathering, tracing how America learned of military developments in Japan, Germany, and Great Britain in the period between the two world wars.
Author : Emily O. Goldman,Leslie C. Eliason
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804745358
Antologi. Sikkerhedspolitiske forskere giver deres vurdering af følgerne af informationsalderens opgør med hidtidig kendt våbenteknologi og doktriner i forbindelse med den globale spredning af know-how på området.
Author : Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107006591
Addresses how military organizations confront the problem of adapting under the trying, terrifying conditions of war.
Author : Barry Posen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0801494273
Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collection of military, economic, and political means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security. Posen isolates three crucial elements of a given strategic doctrine: its offensive, defensive, or deterrent characteristics, its integration of military resources with political aims, and the degree of military or operational innovation it contains. He then examines these components of doctrine from the perspectives of organization theory and balance of power theory, taking into account the influence of technology and geography. Looking at interwar France, Britain, and Germany, Posen challenges each theory to explain the German Blitzkrieg, the British air defense system, and the French Army's defensive doctrine often associated with the Maginot Line. This rigorous comparative study, in which the balance of power theory emerges as the more useful, not only allows us to discover important implications for the study of national strategy today, but also serves to sharpen our understanding of the origins of World War II.
Author : Jonathan Mallory House
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Armies
ISBN : 9781428915831