The Development of Military Thought: The Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780198202462 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 288 str.

Azar Gat

Opis

This scholarly and original study of military thought during the nineteenth century focuses on the wider conceptions of war, strategy, and military theory which dominated the West in this period. Azar Gat's penetrating analysis uncovers the intellectual assumptions and picture of the past which underlay military policy and practice.

Recenzje

`Gat's book must be lauded for the attempt it makes to remedy one of the great omisssions in the historiography of strategic theory. An especially worthwhile result of Gat's approach is the fundamental criticisms it allows Gat to make of the popular interpretation of pre-First World War French miltary thought, ... the second important contribution of Gat's book is to show that the 19th-century European military had a coherent, convincing, and applicable view of war.' Security Studies