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Book Liddell Hart and the Weight of Criticism

Download or read book Liddell Hart and the Weight of Criticism written by Lutz Unterseher and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is dedicated to the person and work of Basil Henry Liddell Hart, once considered the world's most distinguished military historian and theorist. The focus is on the systematic criticism voiced of his thinking and activities by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic: critical positions that - to a considerable extent - have seriously damaged Liddell Hart's reputation. By drawing on general military theory as well as biographical details, Unterseher succeeds in rendering the theorist's concepts better understandable, in relevant cases even justifying them.

Book Liddell Hart and the Weight of Criticism

Download or read book Liddell Hart and the Weight of Criticism written by Lutz Unterseher and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is dedicated to the person and work of Basil Henry Liddell Hart, once considered the world's most distinguished military historian and theorist. The focus is on the systematic criticism voiced of his thinking and activities by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic: critical positions that - to a considerable extent - have seriously damaged Liddell Hart's reputation. By drawing on general military theory as well as biographical details, Unterseher succeeds in rendering the theorist's concepts better understandable, in relevant cases even justifying them.

Book Liddell Hart and the Weight of History

Download or read book Liddell Hart and the Weight of History written by John J. Mearsheimer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This troubling book offers a striking illustration of how history can be used and abused--how a gifted individual can create their own self-serving version of the past.

Book Studies in British Military Thought

Download or read book Studies in British Military Thought written by Brian Holden Reid and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bogens tema er britisk militærhistorie personificeret ved mellemkrigstidens to store militære tænkere J.F.C.Fuller og B.H.Liddell Hart. Antologien indeholder 11 essay's. Af disse er de fem alene helliget Fuller, der spænder fra hans bidrag til teorien om mekaniseret krigsførelse til hans vision om et særligt operativt niveau (Operational level of war). Kun en enkelt essay vedrører Liddell Hart og desuden T.E.Lawrence. De resterende fem essay's indeholder en sammenlignede analyse af Fuller's og Liddell Hart's tilgang til samme emner - spændende fra deres holdning til facisme til deres behandling af antikkens krigsførelse og den amerikanske borgerkrig...Bogen indeholder tillige en særlig bibliografi over de vigtigste værker af Fuller og Liddell Hart.

Book Strategy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Captain B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2016-07-26
  • ISBN : 1786259737
  • Pages : 547 pages

Download or read book Strategy written by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the classic book on war as we know it. During his long life, Basil H. Liddell Hart was considered one of the world’s foremost military thinkers—a man generally regarded as the “Clausewitz of the 20th century.” Strategy is a seminal work of military history and theory, a perfect companion to Sun-tzu’s The Art of War and Carl von Clausewitz’s On War. Liddell Hart stressed movement, flexibility, and surprise. He saw that in most military campaigns dislocation of the enemy’s psychological and physical balance is prelude to victory. This dislocation results from a strategic indirect approach. Reflect for a moment on the results of direct confrontation (trench war in WWI) versus indirect dislocation (Blitzkrieg in WWII). Liddell Hart is also tonic for business and political planning: just change the vocabulary and his concepts fit.-Print ed. “The most important book by one of the outstanding military authorities of our time.”—Library Journal

Book The Strategy of Indirect Approach

Download or read book The Strategy of Indirect Approach written by Liddell Hart and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book United States Army Combat Forces Journal

Download or read book United States Army Combat Forces Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Challenge of Change

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  • Author : Harold R. Winton
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803298354
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book The Challenge of Change written by Harold R. Winton and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also included are an introduction describing the intellectual and practical challenges facing the military reformer in peacetime and a concluding essay by Dennis Showalter drawing together the issues examined in the preceding studies and setting these themes in an interpretive, historiographical context. The Challenge of Change has been designed to meet the needs of historians, military professionals, and defense analysts."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Sun Tzu in the West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Lorge
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2022-11-17
  • ISBN : 110883065X
  • Pages : 247 pages

Download or read book Sun Tzu in the West written by Peter Lorge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new revisionist history of the reception of the most important Chinese work on strategy, The Art of War, in the West. Peter Lorge contends that the Western interpretation of Sun Tzu's ideas was not based upon Chinese understandings of the text, but upon twentieth-century Western strategic ideas.

Book Concepts of Non Provocative Defence

Download or read book Concepts of Non Provocative Defence written by G. Wiseman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the viability of non-provocative defence - the controversial idea that defensive military policies and practices reduce the risk of wars and provide a viable basis for defending a society should war break out. Drawing on case studies from Europe, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and Asia-Pacific, the author concludes that non-provocative defence concepts remain relevant and that they can help in deterring, conducting, and settling wars.

Book World War 1 in Outline

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  • Author : B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Publisher : Westholme Pub Llc
  • Release : 2012-03
  • ISBN : 9781594161612
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book World War 1 in Outline written by B. H. Liddell Hart and published by Westholme Pub Llc. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise history of the war, divided into five parts representing each year of the war. Discusses the war on land, at sea and in the air while incorporating the political events of the time.

Book The History Essays

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  • Author : Joseph Cook
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2014-03-27
  • ISBN : 1304984656
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The History Essays written by Joseph Cook and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of history research papers written by the author during his graduate coursework. Most of the articles relate to the American Civil War. The final paper included was honored by an academic conference as the top paper presented; it deals with the death of U.S. Army General Edward R.S. Canby. All in all, this collection is a valuable resource for students of American history. All material is copyrighted by the author.

Book British Armour Theory and the Rise of the Panzer Arm

Download or read book British Armour Theory and the Rise of the Panzer Arm written by A. Gat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing hitherto untapped archival sources, Azar Gat overturns recent historiographical trends in the study of British and German armour developments between the two World Wars. He reinstates British pioneering theory and practice as the inspiration for the creators of the Panzer arm that made possible Germany's 'Blitzkrieg' victories in the opening stage of World War II.

Book Haig and Kitchener in Twentieth Century Britain

Download or read book Haig and Kitchener in Twentieth Century Britain written by Stephen Heathorn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Kitchener and Lord Haig are two monumental figures of the First World War. Their reputations, both in their lifetimes and after their deaths, have been attacked and defended, scrutinized and contested. They have been depicted in film, print and public memorials in Britain and the wider world, and new biographies of both men appear to this day. The material representations of Haig and Kitchener were shaped, used and manipulated for official and popular ends by a variety of groups at different times during the twentieth century. The purpose of this study is not to discover the real individual, nor to attack or defend their reputations, rather it is an exploration of how both men have been depicted since their deaths and to consider what this tells us about the nature and meaning of First World War commemoration. While Haig's representation was more contested before the Second World War than was Kitchener's, with several constituencies trying to fashion and use Haig's memory - the Government, the British Legion, ex-servicemen themselves, and bereaved families - it was probably less contested, but overwhelmingly more negative, than Kitchener's after the Second World War. The book sheds light on the notion of 'heroic' masculinity - questioning, in particular, the degree to which the image of the common soldier replaced that of the high commander in the popular imagination - and explores how the military heritage in the twentieth century came into collision with the culture of modernity. It also contributes to ongoing debates in British historiography and to the larger debates over the social construction of memory, the problematic relation between what is considered 'heritage' and 'history', and the need for historians to be sensitive and attentive to the interconnections between heritage and history and their contexts.

Book Making Makers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael P. M. Finch
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2024-05-07
  • ISBN : 0192692739
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Making Makers written by Michael P. M. Finch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Makers presents a comprehensive history of a seminal work of scholarship which has exerted a persistent attraction for scholars of war and strategy: Makers of Modern Strategy. It reveals the processes by which scholars conceived and devised the book, considering both successful and failed attempts to make and remake the work across the twentieth century, and illuminating its impact and legacy. It explains how and why these influential volumes took their particular forms, unearths the broader intellectual processes that shaped them, and reflects on the academic parameters of the study of war in the twentieth century. In presenting a complete genesis of the Makers project in the context of intellectual trends and historical contingency, this book reflects on a more complex and nuanced appraisal of the development of scholarship on war. In so doing it also offers contributions to the intellectual biographies of key figures in the history of war in the twentieth century, such as Edward Mead Earle, Peter Paret, Gordon Craig, and Theodore Ropp. Making Makers contributes to an intellectual history of military history and contextualises the place of history and historians in strategic and security studies. It is not only a history of the book, but a history of the networks of scholars involved in its creation, their careers, and lines of patronage, crossing international boundaries, from Europe to the USA, to Asia and Australia. It is an investigation of ideas, individuals, and groups, of work completed and scholarship produced, as well as contingency and opportunities missed.

Book Military Strategy  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book Military Strategy A Very Short Introduction written by Antulio J. Echevarria II and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction adapts Clausewitz's framework to highlight the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, Antulio J. Echevarria discusses the major types of military strategy and how emerging technologies are affecting them. This second edition has been updated to include an expanded chapter on manipulation through cyberwarfare and new further reading.

Book Mosby s Outdoor Emergency Medical Guide

Download or read book Mosby s Outdoor Emergency Medical Guide written by David H. Manhoff and published by Beechwood Healthbooks, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lifesaving guide shows and tells the untrained person what to do in an outdoor emergency until professional help arrives. Its easy-to-understand instructions and illustrations include care for heart attacks, strokes, open wounds, falls, choking, broken bones, animal and snake bites, insect stings, and dehydration.