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Command In War
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Author : Martin Van Creveld
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1987-01-01
Command In War written by Martin Van Creveld and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy. In vivid descriptions of key battles and campaigns—among others, Napoleon at Jena, Moltke’s Königgrätz campaign, the Arab–Israeli war of 1973, and the Americans in Vietnam—Martin van Creveld focuses on the means of command and shows how those means worked in practice. He finds that technological advances such as the railroad, breech-loading rifles, the telegraph and later the radio, tanks, and helicopters all brought commanders not only new tactical possibilities but also new limitations. Although vast changes have occurred in military thinking and technology, the one constant has been an endless search for certainty—certainty about the state and intentions of the enemy’s forces; certainty about the manifold factors that together constitute the environment in which war is fought, from the weather and terrain to radioactivity and the presence of chemical warfare agents; and certainty about the state, intentions, and activities of one’s own forces. The book concludes that progress in command has usually been achieved less by employing more advanced technologies than by finding ways to transcend the limitations of existing ones.
Command In War
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Author : Martin Van Creveld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Command In War written by Martin Van Creveld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Command and control systems categories.
Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy. In vivid descriptions of key battles and campaigns--among others, Napoleon at Jena, Moltke's Königgrätz campaign, the Arab-Israeli war of 1973, and the Americans in Vietnam--van Creveld focuses on the means of command and shows how those means worked in practice. He finds that technological advances such as the railroad, breech-loading rifles, the telegraph and later the radio, tanks, and helicopters all brought commanders not only new tactical possibilities but also new limitations. Although vast changes have occurred in military thinking and technology, the one constant has been an endless search for certainty--certainty about the state and intentions of the enemy's forces; certainty about the manifold factors that together constitute the environment in which war is fought, from the weather and terrain to radioactivity and the presence of chemical warfare agents; and certainty about the state, intentions, and activities of one's own forces. The book concludes that progress in command has usually been achieved less by employing more advanced technologies than by finding ways to transcend the limitations of existing ones. -- Publisher's description.
Command In War
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Author : Martin L. Van Creveld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Command In War written by Martin L. Van Creveld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Command and control systems categories.
Command In War
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Author : Martin Van Creveld
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1985
Command In War written by Martin Van Creveld and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy. In vivid descriptions of key battles and campaigns—among others, Napoleon at Jena, Moltke’s Königgrätz campaign, the Arab–Israeli war of 1973, and the Americans in Vietnam—Martin van Creveld focuses on the means of command and shows how those means worked in practice. He finds that technological advances such as the railroad, breech-loading rifles, the telegraph and later the radio, tanks, and helicopters all brought commanders not only new tactical possibilities but also new limitations. Although vast changes have occurred in military thinking and technology, the one constant has been an endless search for certainty—certainty about the state and intentions of the enemy’s forces; certainty about the manifold factors that together constitute the environment in which war is fought, from the weather and terrain to radioactivity and the presence of chemical warfare agents; and certainty about the state, intentions, and activities of one’s own forces. The book concludes that progress in command has usually been achieved less by employing more advanced technologies than by finding ways to transcend the limitations of existing ones.
Command In War
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Author : MARTIN VAN. CREVELD
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12-30
Command In War written by MARTIN VAN. CREVELD and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-30 with categories.
Command Failure In War
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Author : Philip Langer
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2004-05-12
Command Failure In War written by Philip Langer and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-12 with History categories.
Why do military commanders, most of them usually quite capable, fail at crucial moments of their careers? Robert Pois and Philip Langer -- one a historian, the other an educational psychologist -- study seven cases of military command failures, from Frederick the Great at Kunersdorf to Hitler's invasion of Russia. While the authors recognize the value of psychological theorizing, they do not believe that one method can cover all the individuals, battles, or campaigns under examination. Instead, they judiciously take a number of psycho-historical approaches in hope of shedding light on the behaviors of commanders during war. The other battles and commanders studied here are Napoleon in Russia, George B. McClellan's Peninsular Campaign, Robert E. Lee and Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, John Bell Hood at the Battle of Franklin, Douglas Haig and the British command during World War I, "Bomber" Harris and the Strategic Bombing of Germany, and Stalingrad.
Command In War
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Author : Dwight David Eisenhower
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950*
Command In War written by Dwight David Eisenhower and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950* with Command of troops categories.
Command And Control For War And Peace
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language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 1994-05
Command And Control For War And Peace written by and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-05 with categories.
Strategy And Command
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Author : Louis Morton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Strategy And Command written by Louis Morton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
An analysis of organization and logistics as well as strategy and command, covering the coming of the war, Japanese policy and American strategy before Pearl Harbor, Japanese victories in the first six months of the war, first efforts in New Guinea and the Solomons to stem the Japanese tide, and the limited offensive in the summer of 1943.
Command
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Author : Lawrence Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2022-09-08
Command written by Lawrence Freedman and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-08 with History categories.
A timely history of the interplay between politics and military operations, 'Command is the history of our time' (Guardian) Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare.