Military innovation in the interwar period
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Military innovation in the interwar period
Cambridge University Press, 1996
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett
- 1. Armored warfare: the British, French, and German experiences Williamson Murray
- 2. Assault from the sea: the development of amphibious warfare between the Wars, the American, British, and Japanese experiences Allan R. Millett
- 3. Strategic bombing: the British, American and German experiences Williamson Murray
- 4. Close air support: the German, British and American experiences, 1918-41 Richard R. Muller
- 5. Adopting the aircraft carrier: the British, American and Japanese case studies Geoffrey Till
- 6. Innovation ignored: the submarine problem, Germany, Britain and the United States, 1919-39 Holger H. Herwig
- 7. From radio to radar: interwar military adaptation to technological change in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States Alan Beyerchen
- 8. Innovation: past and future Williamson Murray
- 9. Patterns of military innovation in the interwar period Allan R. Millett
- 10. Military innovation in peacetime Barry Watts and Williamson Murray.
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