Military Effectiveness

Herausgegeben von Millett, Allan R.; Murray, Williamson

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 1112
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 62mm
• Gewicht: 1500g
• ISBN-13: 9780521170833
• ISBN-10: 0521170834
• Artikelnr.: 30367289

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1: Introduction: military effectiveness twenty years after Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett; 1. The effectiveness of military organizations Allan R. Millett, Williamson Murray, and Kenneth H. Watman; 2. Britain in the First World War Paul Kennedy; 3. The dynamics of necessity: German military policy during the First World War Holger H. Herwig; 4. American military effectiveness in the First World War Timothy K. Nenninger; 5. Italy during the First World War John Gooch; 6. The French Army in the First World War Douglas Porch; 7. Japan, 1914-18 Ian Nish; 8. Imperial Russia's forces at war David R. Jones; 9. Military effectiveness in the First World War Paul Kennedy; Introduction: military effectiveness twenty years after Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett. Volume 2: 1. The Soviet armed forces in the interwar period Earl F. Ziemke; 2. The French armed forces, 1918-40 Robert A. Doughty; 3. The military effectiveness of the US armed forces, 1919-39 Ronald Spector; 4.

Rezensionen

'Military Effectiveness is a first-rate historical analysis and commentary on the performance of nations at war in the most violent half-century in recorded human history. Drawing upon the considerable talents of such historians as Paul Kennedy, Holger H. Herwig, John Gooch, Earl F. Ziemke, Robert A. Doughty, Ronald Spector, Alvin D. Coox, MacGregor Knox and Russell F. Weigley, Military Effectiveness offers a host of compelling ... insights as to why 'some military forces succeed, while others fail'.' Jeffrey Record, Parameters