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The dynamics of military revolution, 1300-2050 / edited by MacGregor Knox, Williamson Murray

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Knox, MacGregor and Murray, Williamson
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Contents
Thinking about revolutions in warfare / Williamson Murray and MacGregor Knox -- "As if a new sun had arisen": England's fourteenth-century RMA / Clifford J. Rogers -- Forging the Western army in seventeenth-century France / John A. Lynn -- Mass politics and nationalism as military revolution: the French Revolution and after / MacGregor Knox -- Surviving military revolution: the U.S. Civil War / Mark Grimsley -- The Prusso-German RMA, 1840-1871 / Dennis E. Showalter -- The battlefleet revolution, 1885-1914 / Holger H. Herwig -- The First World War and the birth of modern warfare / Jonathan B.A. Bailey -- May 1940: contingency and fragility of the German RMA / Williamson Murray -- Conclusion: the future behind us / Williamson Murray and MacGregor Knox.
Summary
The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: 'military revolutions', which are driven by vast social and political changes; and 'revolutions in military affairs', which military institutions have directed, although usually with great difficulty and ambiguous results. By providing both a conceptual framework and a historical context for thinking about revolutionary changes in military affairs, the work establishes a baseline for understanding the patterns of change, innovation, and adaptation that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century - beginning with Edward III's revolutionary changes in medieval warfare, through the development of modern Western military institutions in seventeenth-century France, to the cataclysmic changes of the First World War and the German Blitzkrieg victories of 1940. This history provides a guide for thinking about military revolutions in the coming century, which are as inevitable as they are difficult to predict.
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9780511817335 (ebook)
9780521800792 (hardback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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