Fascist and liberal visions of war : Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and other modernists

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Fascist and liberal visions of war : Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and other modernists

Azar Gat

Clarendon Press, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-328) and index

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In this ground-breaking study, Professor Azar Gat examines how the theories of mechanized war developed throughout the industrial world in the first decades of the twentieth century. He explains why the most famous pioneers of these theories were asssociated with proto-facscism. Professor Gat then drastically re-evaluates B.H. Liddell Hart's contribution to strategic theory, overturning much of the criticism recently levelled against him. He argues that, in the wake of the trauma of the First World War, and in response to the Axis challenge, Liddell Hart developed the doctrine of containment and cold war long before the advent of nuclear weapons. He reveals Liddell Hart as a pioneer of the modern western liberal way in warfare which is still with us today.

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  • NCID
    BA43675589
  • ISBN
    • 0198207158
  • LCCN
    99167649
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 334 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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