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Kleinkrieg - The German Experience with Guerrilla Warfare, from Clausewitz to Hitler (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Kleinkrieg - The German Experience with Guerrilla Warfare, from Clausewitz to Hitler (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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In recent years the great powers of the West-primarily the US and
UK-have most often been relegated to fighting "small wars," rather
than the great confrontational battles for which they once
prepared. It has been a difficult process, with some conflicts
increasingly being seen as unwinnable, or at least not worth the
effort in treasure and blood, even as the geopolitical structure of
the world appears to slip. It is thus worth paying heed now, to the
experiences of another power which once encountered the same
problems. This work examines the German analysis to the problem,
covering their experiences from the Napoleonic era to the Third
Reich. Though the latter regime, the most despicable in history,
needed to be destroyed by US/UK conventional force, as well as that
of the Soviets, the German military meantime provided analysis to
the question of grassroots-as opposed to great-power-warfare. This
work is built around the historical analysis titled Kleinkrieg,
provided to the German High Command by Arthur Earhardt in 1935
(republished in 1942 and 1943) which examined insurgencies from
French-occupied Spain to recurrent problems in the Balkans. It also
calls upon the Bandenbekampfung (Fighting the Guerilla Bands)
document provided to Germany's OKW in 1944. In both, conditions
that were specific to broader military operations were separated
from circumstances in occupation campaigns, and new background in
the German experience in suppressing rebellion in World War II is
presented. Edited and annotated, along with new analysis, by
Charles D. Melson, former Chief Historian for the U.S. Marine
Corps, Kleinkrieg expands our knowledge of the Western experience
in coping with insurgencies. Without partaking in ideological
biases, this work examines the purely military problem as seen by
professionals. While small wars are not new, how they should be
fought by a modern industrial nation is still a question to be
answered. Rediscovered and presented in English, these German
thoughts on the issue are now made available to a new generation of
guerilla and irregular war fighters in the West.
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