The Victorian Army And The Staff College 1854 1914

Author : Brian Bond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317412519

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The Victorian Army and the Staff College 1854-1914 by Brian Bond Pdf

A pioneering work in British military history, originally published in 1972, this book is both scholarly and entertaining. Although the book concentrates on a single institution, it illuminates a much wider area of social and intellectual change. For the Army the importance of the change was enormous: in 1854 there was neither a Staff College nor a General Staff, and professional education and training were largely despised by the officers: by 1914 the College could justly be described as ‘a school of thought’ while the officers it had trained were coming to dominate the highest posts in Commands and on the General Staff.

Author : Douglas E. Delaney,Robert C. Engen,Meghan Fitzpatrick
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774837569

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Military Education and the British Empire, 1815–1949 by Douglas E. Delaney,Robert C. Engen,Meghan Fitzpatrick Pdf

Military education was the lifeblood of the armies, navies, and air forces of the British Empire and an essential ingredient for success in both war and peace. Military Education and the British Empire is the first major scholarly work to address the role of military education in maintaining the empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bringing together the world’s top scholars on the subject, this book places distinct national narratives – Canadian, Australian, South African, British, and Indian – within a comparative context. Ultimately, this book allows readers to consider the connections between education and empire from a transnational perspective.

Author : Simon Robbins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134269686

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British Generalship on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Simon Robbins Pdf

This book explores how British Army learnt from the pyrrhic victories of 1915-17 and developed the new tactics, leadership and doctrine of combined arms to overcome the tactical stalemate hitherto bedevilling Allied offensives to defeat the

Author : Paul Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134808175

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The Men Who Planned the War by Paul Harris Pdf

During the Allied victory celebrations there were few who chose to raise a glass to the staff. The high cost of casualties endured by the British army tarnished the reputation of the military planners, which has yet to recover. This book examines the work and development of the staff of the British army during the First World War and its critical role in the military leadership team. Their effectiveness was germane to the outcome of events in the front line but not enough consideration has been paid to this level of command and control, which has largely been overshadowed by the debate over generalship. This has painted an incomplete picture of the command function. Characterised as arrogant, remote and out of touch with the realities of the front line, the staff have been held responsible for the mismanagement of the war effort and profligate loss of lives in futile offensives. This book takes a different view. By using their letters and diaries it reveals fresh insights into their experience of the war. It shows that the staff made frequent visits to the front line and were no strangers to combat or hostile fire. Their work is also compared with their counterparts in the French and German armies, highlighting differences in practice and approach. In so doing, this study throws new light upon the characteristics, careers and working lives of these officers, investigating the ways in which they both embraced and resisted change. This offers evidence both for those who wish to exonerate the British command system on the basis of the learning process but also for those critical of its performance, thus advancing understanding of British military history in the First World War.

Author : Randall Wakelam,David Varey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813180274

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Educating Air Forces by Randall Wakelam,David Varey Pdf

Compared to armies and navies, which have existed as professional fighting services for centuries, the technology that makes air forces possible is much newer. As a result, these services have had to quickly develop methods of preparing aviators to operate in conditions ranging from peace or routine security to full-scale war. The first book to address the history and scope of air power professionalization through learning programs, Educating Air Forces offers valuable new insight into strategy and tactics worldwide. Here, a group of international experts examine the philosophies, policies, and practices of air service educational efforts in the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, Canada, and the UK. The contributors discuss the founding, successes, and failures of European air force learning programs between the Great War and World War II and explore how the tense Cold War political climate influenced the creation, curriculum, and results of various programs. They also consider how educational programs are adapting to soldiers' needs and the demands of modern warfare. Featuring contributions from eminent scholars in the field, this volume surveys the learning approaches globally employed by air forces in the past century and evaluates their effectiveness. Educating Air Forces reveals how experiential learning and formal education are not only inextricably intertwined, but also necessary to cope with advances in modern warfare.

Author : Edward M. Spiers
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719026598

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The Late Victorian Army, 1868-1902 by Edward M. Spiers Pdf

Author : Brian N. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107170551

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Communications and British Operations on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Brian N. Hall Pdf

This book reveals the impact of communications on the military operations of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War.

Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004185500

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The Indian Army in the Two World Wars by Kaushik Roy Pdf

This collection of seventeen essays based on archival data breaks new ground as regards the contribution of the Indian Army in British war effort during the two World Wars around various parts of the globe.

Author : Rudra Chaudhuri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000486759

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War and Peace in Contemporary India by Rudra Chaudhuri Pdf

War and Peace in Contemporary India examines the importance of institutions and the role played by international actors in crucial episodes of India’s strategic history. The contributions trace India’s tryst with war and peace from immediately before the foundation of the contemporary Indian state, to the last military conflict between India and Pakistan in 1999. The focus of the chapters included in this edited volume is as much on India as it is on Pakistan and China, its opponents in war. The chapters offer a fresh take on the creation of India as a regional military power, and her approach to War and Peace in the post-independence period. Importantly, it advances the broader work on Indian strategic history during the Cold War and after, an otherwise under-studied intellectual landscape. The book offers fresh insights based on archival work, as well as a closer conceptual reading of Indian, British and American decision making at times of war and peace in contemporary India. This book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers and students interested in strategic studies, diplomatic and military history, international diplomacy, as well as Indian history and politics. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies.

Author : Simon J. Moody
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192586346

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Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945-1989 by Simon J. Moody Pdf

The primary mission assigned to the British Army from the 1950s until the end of the Cold War was deterring Soviet aggression in Europe by demonstrating the will and capability to fight with nuclear weapons in defence of NATO territory. This 'surreal' mission was unlike any other in history, and raised a number of conceptual and practical difficulties. This comprehensive study observes how the British Army imagined nuclear war, and how it planned to fight it. Using new archival sources, Simon J. Moody analyses British thinking about tactical nuclear weapons, the role of the Army within NATO strategy, the development of theories of tactical nuclear warfare, how nuclear war was taught at the Staff College, the role of operational research, and the evolution of the Army's nuclear war-fighting doctrine. He argues that the British Army possessed the intellectual capacity for organisational adaptation, but that it displayed a cognitive dissonance about some of the more uncomfortable realities of nuclear war.

Author : Edward J. Erickson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135984571

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Ottoman Army Effectiveness in World War I by Edward J. Erickson Pdf

This volume examines how the Ottoman Army was able to evolve and maintain a high level of overall combat effectiveness despite the primitive nature of the Ottoman State during the First World War. Structured around four case studies, at the operational and tactical level, of campaigns involving the Ottoman Empire and the British Empire: Gallipoli in 1915, Kut in 1916, Third Gaza-Beersheba in 1917, and Megiddo in 1918. For each of these campaigns, particular emphasis is placed on examining specific elements of combat effectiveness and how they affected that particular battle. The prevalent historiography attributes Ottoman battlefield success primarily to external factors - such as the presence of German generals and staff officers; climate, weather and terrain that adversely affected allied operations; allied bumbling and amateurish operations; and inadequate allied intelligence. By contrast, Edward J. Erickson argues that the Ottoman Army was successful due to internal factors, such as its organizational architecture, a hardened cadre of experienced combat leaders, its ability to organize itself for combat, and its application of the German style of war. Ottoman Army Effectiveness in World War I will be of great interest to students of the First World War, military history and strategic studies in general.

Author : David French,Brian Holden Reid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135773939

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British General Staff by David French,Brian Holden Reid Pdf

The essays that comprise this collection examine the development and influence of the British General Staff from the late Victorian period until the eve of World War II. They trace the changes in the staff that influenced British military strategy and subsequent operations on the battlefield.

Author : E. Smalley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137494207

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The British Expeditionary Force, 1939-40 by E. Smalley Pdf

Between September 1939 and June 1940, the British Expeditionary Force confronted the German threat to France and Flanders with a confused mind-set, an uncertain skills-set and an uncompetitive capability. This book explores the formation's origins, the scale of defeat in France and the campaign's considerable legacy.

Author : Rodney Atwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474246996

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General Lord Rawlinson by Rodney Atwood Pdf

In this biography Rodney Atwood details the life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent (1864-1925), a distinguished British soldier whose career culminated in decisive victories on the Western Front in 1918 and command of the Indian Army in the early 1920s. He served his soldier's apprenticeship in the Victorian colonial wars in Burma, the Sudan and South Africa. His career provides a lens through which to examine the British Army in the late-19th and early-20th century. In the South African War (1899-1902) Rawlinson's ideas aided the defence of Ladysmith, and he distinguished himself leading a mobile column in the guerrilla war. In the First World War he held an important command in most of the British Expeditionary Force's battles on the Western Front. He bears a heavy part-responsibility for the disastrous first day of the Somme, but later in the battle his successful tactics inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. His Western Front career culminated in a series of victories beginning at Amiens. He commanded the Indian Army between 1920 and 1925 at a time of military and political tension following the 3rd Afghan War and the Amritsar Massacre. He introduced necessary reforms, cut expenditure at a time of postwar retrenchment and began commissioning Indians to replace British officers. He would have taken up the post of CIGS (Chief of the Imperial General Staff), thus being the only British soldier to hold these two top posts. He died, however, four days after his sixty-first birthday. Drawing extensively on archival material including Rawlinson's own engagingly-written letters and diaries, this thorough examination of his life will be of great interest to those studying British military history, imperial history and the First World War.

Author : James Pugh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317016908

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The Royal Flying Corps, the Western Front and the Control of the Air, 1914–1918 by James Pugh Pdf

By the middle of 1918 the British Army had successfully mastered the concept of ’all arms’ warfare on the Western Front. This doctrine, integrating infantry, artillery, armoured vehicles and - crucially - air power, was to prove highly effective and formed the basis of major military operations for the next hundred years. Yet, whilst much has been written on the utilisation of ground forces, the air element still tends to be studied in isolation from the army as a whole. In order to move beyond the usual 'aircraft and aces' approach, this book explores the conceptual origins of the control of the air and the role of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) within the British army. In so doing it addresses four key themes. First, it explores and defines the most fundamental air power concept - the control of the air - by examining its conceptual origins before and during the First World War. Second, it moves beyond the popular history of air power during the First World War to reveal the complexity of the topic. Third, it reintegrates the study of air power during the First World War, specifically that of the RFC, into the strategic, operational, organisational, and intellectual contexts of the era, as well as embedding the study within the respective scholarly literatures of these contexts. Fourth, the book reinvigorates an entrenched historiography by challenging the usually critical interpretation of the RFC’s approach to the control of the air, providing new perspectives on air power during the First World War. This includes an exploration of the creation of the RAF and its impact on the development of air power concepts.