Author: Carl Cavanagh Hodge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315391376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book is a comparative study of military operations conducted my modern states between the French Revolution and World War I. It examines the complex relationship between political purpose and strategy on the one hand, and the challenge of realizing strategic goals through military operations on the other. It argues further that following the experience of the Napoleonic Wars military strength was awarded a primary status in determining the comparative modernity of all the Great Powers; that military goals came progressively to distort a sober understanding of the national interest; that a genuinely political and diplomatic understanding of national strategy was lost; and that these developments collectively rendered the military and political catastrophe of 1914 not inevitable yet probable.
War, Strategy and the Modern State, 1792–1914
Author: Carl Cavanagh Hodge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315391376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book is a comparative study of military operations conducted my modern states between the French Revolution and World War I. It examines the complex relationship between political purpose and strategy on the one hand, and the challenge of realizing strategic goals through military operations on the other. It argues further that following the experience of the Napoleonic Wars military strength was awarded a primary status in determining the comparative modernity of all the Great Powers; that military goals came progressively to distort a sober understanding of the national interest; that a genuinely political and diplomatic understanding of national strategy was lost; and that these developments collectively rendered the military and political catastrophe of 1914 not inevitable yet probable.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315391376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book is a comparative study of military operations conducted my modern states between the French Revolution and World War I. It examines the complex relationship between political purpose and strategy on the one hand, and the challenge of realizing strategic goals through military operations on the other. It argues further that following the experience of the Napoleonic Wars military strength was awarded a primary status in determining the comparative modernity of all the Great Powers; that military goals came progressively to distort a sober understanding of the national interest; that a genuinely political and diplomatic understanding of national strategy was lost; and that these developments collectively rendered the military and political catastrophe of 1914 not inevitable yet probable.
Edwards's Military Catalogue
Author: Francis Edwards (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Conflict in Afghanistan
Author: Martin Ewans
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134294816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This book deals with each of the five conflicts in which Afghanistan has been embroiled, namely the First, Second and Third Anglo-Afghan Wars, the Soviet invasion and the most recent American-led operations.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134294816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This book deals with each of the five conflicts in which Afghanistan has been embroiled, namely the First, Second and Third Anglo-Afghan Wars, the Soviet invasion and the most recent American-led operations.
British Relation with Sind
Author: Robert A. Huttenback
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Oxford History of India
Author: Vincent Arthur Smith
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century
Author: William B. Trousdale
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004445226
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This comprehensive history of Kandahar uses unpublished and fugitive sources to provide a detailed picture of the geographical layout and political, social, ethnic, religious, and economic life in Afghanistan’s second largest city throughout the nineteenth century.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004445226
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This comprehensive history of Kandahar uses unpublished and fugitive sources to provide a detailed picture of the geographical layout and political, social, ethnic, religious, and economic life in Afghanistan’s second largest city throughout the nineteenth century.
The A to Z of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies
Author: Ludwig W. Adamec
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461731895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Since its foundation in 1747, Afghanistan has seen seemingly limitless wars waged by the central government to consolidate its control over the country as well as rampant tribal warfare. There have been three Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839-42, 1878-79 and 1919); a Russian-backed Marxist government in Kabul battled a coalition of tribal armies, which was soon followed by the Taliban takeover. Now, in the midst of a war against terrorism, the United States is backing another central government in yet another sporadic struggle. All the information currently available on the endless chain of wars stretching over two and a half centuries is traced in The A to Z of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies. It consists of the American involvement in Afghanistan since October 2001 as well as individual campaigns, including tactics and logistics of skirmishes, the weapons used, and biographical entries on the significant leaders involved in the battles. Extensive analysis of regional and ideological divisions within the country and the external forces that have brought around conflict in this remote, mountainous region, in addition to a chronology of the encounters, an extensive bibliography, and numerous maps and illustrations make this crucial volume indispensable.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461731895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Since its foundation in 1747, Afghanistan has seen seemingly limitless wars waged by the central government to consolidate its control over the country as well as rampant tribal warfare. There have been three Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839-42, 1878-79 and 1919); a Russian-backed Marxist government in Kabul battled a coalition of tribal armies, which was soon followed by the Taliban takeover. Now, in the midst of a war against terrorism, the United States is backing another central government in yet another sporadic struggle. All the information currently available on the endless chain of wars stretching over two and a half centuries is traced in The A to Z of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies. It consists of the American involvement in Afghanistan since October 2001 as well as individual campaigns, including tactics and logistics of skirmishes, the weapons used, and biographical entries on the significant leaders involved in the battles. Extensive analysis of regional and ideological divisions within the country and the external forces that have brought around conflict in this remote, mountainous region, in addition to a chronology of the encounters, an extensive bibliography, and numerous maps and illustrations make this crucial volume indispensable.
A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest
Author: Edward Thornton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the North-West; Including Sinde, Afghanistan, Beloochistan, the Punjab and the Neighbouring States in Two Volumes Compiled by the Authority of the Hon. Court of Directors of the East-India Company and Chiefly from Documents in Their Possession
Historical Dictionary of Afghan Wars, Revolutions, and Insurgencies
Author: Ludwig W. Adamec
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810849488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Since its foundation in 1747, Afghanistan has seen seemingly limitless wars waged by the central government to consolidate its control over the country as well as rampant tribal warfare. There have been three Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839-42, 1878-79 and 1919); a Russian-backed Marxist government in Kabul battled a coalition of tribal armies, which was soon followed by the Taliban takeover. Now, in the midst of a war against terrorism, the United States is backing another central government in yet another sporadic struggle. All the information currently available on the endless chain of wars stretching over two and a half centuries is traced in this book. It consists of the American involvement in Afghanistan since October 2001 as well as individual campaigns, including tactics and logistics of skirmishes, the weapons used, and biographical entries on the significant leaders involved in the battles. Extensive analysis of regional and ideological divisions within the country and the external forces that have brought around conflict in this remote, mountainous region, in addition to a chronology of the encounters, an extensive bibliography, and numerous maps and illustrations make this crucial volume indispensable.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810849488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Since its foundation in 1747, Afghanistan has seen seemingly limitless wars waged by the central government to consolidate its control over the country as well as rampant tribal warfare. There have been three Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839-42, 1878-79 and 1919); a Russian-backed Marxist government in Kabul battled a coalition of tribal armies, which was soon followed by the Taliban takeover. Now, in the midst of a war against terrorism, the United States is backing another central government in yet another sporadic struggle. All the information currently available on the endless chain of wars stretching over two and a half centuries is traced in this book. It consists of the American involvement in Afghanistan since October 2001 as well as individual campaigns, including tactics and logistics of skirmishes, the weapons used, and biographical entries on the significant leaders involved in the battles. Extensive analysis of regional and ideological divisions within the country and the external forces that have brought around conflict in this remote, mountainous region, in addition to a chronology of the encounters, an extensive bibliography, and numerous maps and illustrations make this crucial volume indispensable.