Missed Signals on the Western Front: How the Slow Adoption of Wireless Restricted British Strategy and Operations in World War I - Couverture souple

Bullock, Mike; Lyons, Laurence A.

 
9780786449378: Missed Signals on the Western Front: How the Slow Adoption of Wireless Restricted British Strategy and Operations in World War I
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0786449373 ISBN 13 : 9780786449378
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Though wireless communication was in early development during World War I, the technology could have made a profound impact on tactical operations and on the entire strategic conduct of the war. Providing details on how and why the technology did not fulfill its promise as a great military tool until years later, the book points primarily to the British army's institutional bias against wireless communication as the technology's downfall, reinforced by the crude, unreliable wireless sets with which the army began the war. It also demonstrates how improved wireless communications between infantry, command, artillery and air observation could have improved the flexibility, accuracy and effectiveness of the British military strategy in the German Spring Offensive, the Hundred Days Counteroffensive and the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, and Cambrai.

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À propos des auteurs

The late Mike Bullock was a retired bank director. He lived in Warwickshire, England.

Laurence A. Lyons, an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at the University of West Florida and the University of South Alabama, lives in Foley, Alabama.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0786449373
ISBN 13 
9780786449378
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
236
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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