Author: Loyal Publication Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The Echo from the Army
Author: Loyal Publication Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The Echo from the Army
Author: The Echo of Battle
Author: Brian McAllister LinnPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
From Lexington and Gettysburg to Normandy and Iraq, the wars of the United States have defined the nation. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts in order to prepare for the next clash of arms. In the echo of battle, the army develops the strategies, weapons, doctrine, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee a future victory. In the face of radically new ways of waging war, Brian Linn surveys the past assumptions--and errors--that underlie the army's many visions of warfare up to the present day. He explores the army's forgotten heritage of deterrence, its long experience with counter-guerrilla operations, and its successive efforts to transform itself. Distinguishing three martial traditions--each with its own concept of warfare, its own strategic views, and its own excuses for failure--he locates the visionaries who prepared the army for its battlefield triumphs and the reactionaries whose mistakes contributed to its defeats. Discussing commanders as diverse as Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Colin Powell, and technologies from coastal artillery to the Abrams tank, he shows how leadership and weaponry have continually altered the army's approach to conflict. And he demonstrates the army's habit of preparing for wars that seldom occur, while ignoring those it must actually fight. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, The Echo of Battle provides an unprecedented reinterpretation of how the U.S. Army has waged war in the past and how it is meeting the new challenges of tomorrow.
The Echo from the Army
Author: Professional Journal of the United States Army
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Testimony of the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military dependents
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Army Research and Development
Author: Military Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Military Self-Interest in Accountability for Core International Crimes
Author: Morten BergsmoPublisher: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
ISBN: 8293081813
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Understanding Land Warfare
Author: Christopher TuckPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000598071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
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.