Command in War (Historical & Reference Books (Harvard University Press))

Martin Van Creveld

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Harvard University Press, 1999

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Harvard University Press Historical & Reference Books (Harvard University Press) Command in War (VG+/NM) (dust jacket Fair+) Manufacturer: Harvard University Press Product Line: Historical & Reference Books (Harvard University Press) Type: Hardcover Copyright Date: 1985 Author: Martin Van Creveld Page Count: 340 Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is VG+/NM - dust jacket Fair+. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description: 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 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.…

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Titre
Command in War (Historical & Reference Books (Harvard University Press))
Auteur
Martin Van Creveld
Éditeur
Harvard University Press
Année de publication
1999
État de l'article
Very Good
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Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0674144406
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780674144408

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