Author: Allan R. Millett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139502122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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This three-volume study examines the questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Italy in the period from 1914 to 1945. Leading military historians deal with the different national approaches to war and military power at the tactical, operational, strategic, and political levels. They form the basis for a fundamental re-examination of how military organizations have performed in the first half of the twentieth century. Volume 3 covers World War II. Volumes 1 and 2 address address World War I and the interwar period, respectively. Now in a new edition, with a new introduction by the editors, these classic volumes will remain invaluable for military historians and social scientists in their examination of national security and military issues. They will also be essential reading for future military leaders at Staff and War Colleges.
Author: Allan Reed Millett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521425913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
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Examines questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the US, Great Britain, Japan and Italy between 1914 and 1945.
Author: Director of the Uno Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Professor of History Allan R Millett
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ISBN: 9781139127295
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Examines questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the US, Great Britain, Japan and Italy between 1914 and 1945.
Author: Williamson R. Murray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521637602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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A study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s.
Author: Allan Reed Millett
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Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Allan R. Millett
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
ISBN: 9780044458449
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Author: Williamson Murray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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This collection of articles represents Professor Williamson Murray's efforts to elucidate the role that history should play in thinking about both the present and the future. They reflect three disparate themes in Professor Murray's work: his deep fascination with history and those who have acted in the past; his fascination with the similarities in human behavior between the past and the present; and his belief that the study of military and strategic history can be of real use to those who will confront the daunting problems of war and peace in the twenty-first century. The first group of essays addresses the relevance of history to an understanding of the present and to an understanding of the possibilities of the future. The second addresses the possible direct uses of history to think through the problems involved in the creation of effective military institutions. The final group represents historical case studies that serve to illuminate the present.
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Languages : en
Pages : 57
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Military effectiveness is a common goal among military forces, but it is an ill-defined concept. Two divergent theories cover the ground of military effectiveness. One looks at the interaction of social structures, whereas the other looks at the effect organization has on military effectiveness. Using the interwar German military as a case study, both concepts are reviewed and seams are found in both approaches. Even when evaluating with both criteria, the answers do not consistently add up to the intuitive solution. A possible explanation lies in several areas left outside of the sociological and organizational approaches to measuring military effectiveness. Key findings of this monograph are the importance of adaptability in military organizations, and the crucial role played by the linkages among all levels of war. These linkages are an element of multiple ends, ways, means chains that also exist at and between each level of war. Finally, the importance of context cannot be ignored. Any potential adversary will be actively searching for ways to improve his own security situation without regard for the security of one's own nation. Tactical and operational level overmatch is no longer enough to ensure the security of the nation. It is a useful and necessary ability, but without the corresponding tight linkages to the higher levels of warfare it may lead to ultimate failure. An excellent test case for evaluating military effectiveness in all its dimensions is the German military during the interwar period. Coming out of the spectacular failure of the Great War, the German military was completely fettered by the Treaty of Versailles; it was limited in all four horizontal components as well as most of the vertical ones. But it was fairly well unbounded in the field of adaptability. Taking the two lenses of sociological thought and organizational method, this study looks at the interwar German military across the previously defined horizontal and vertical slices.
Author: Allan Millett
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Author: Jonathan Fennell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 967
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Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.
