This is a book about the theory and practice of war. It is not primarily an account of the campaigns fought in the last two or three hundred years; it is more an attempt to consider how European armies rationalised their experience of those campaigns and so prepared their plans and doctrines for the next. It is also a book about social and technological change. Therefore, it begins with the eighteenth century, and thus aims to set its subject matter in the context both of the Industrial and of the French Revolutions. Geographically, it takes a broad swathe through Central and Western Europe. It tends to neglect the Scandinavian and Mediterranean peripheries, and at points it focuses exclusively on the leading and most innovative nation of the day. The attention given to the military experience of the United States, and the consideration of airpower, may both seem extraneous elements. By the end of the book, I hope it will be clear why they have
been included. A chapter has been devoted to colonial warfare, but guerrilla and counterinsurgency operations have not been treated.
Название: European Armies and the Conduct of War By Hew Strachan
Издательство: Publisher: Routledge
Год издания: 1998
Автор: Hew Strachan
ISBN: 0415078636
Язык: english
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 233 pages
Размер: 14,5 Mb
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