The development of military thought : the nineteenth century
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The development of military thought : the nineteenth century
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1992
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Military thought : the nineteenth century
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Bibliography: p. [249]-268
Includes index
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Description
This scholarly and original study of military thought during the nineteenth century, continues and expands the themes Azar Gat explored in The Origins of Military Thought.
The present volume spans the period from the aftermath of the Napoleonic era to the outbreak of the First World War. Encompassing Prussia/Germany, France, Great Britain, the USA, and the Marxist theory later to gain sway in Russia, it focuses on the wider conceptions of war, strategy, and military theory which dominated the West in this period, and Dr Gat's penetrating analysis uncovers the intellectual assumptions and the picture of the past which underlay military policy and
practice.
Table of Contents
- Positivism, romanticism and military theory, 1815-1870
- the German military school - its world-view and conception of war, 1815-1914
- the cult of the offensive - the sources of French military doctrine, 1871-1914
- from sail to steam - naval theory and the military parallel
- Marxism, Clausewitz and military theory, 1848 to the Nuclear Age.
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