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How Armies Grow - The Expansion of Military Forces in the Age of Total War 1789-1945 (Hardcover)
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How Armies Grow - The Expansion of Military Forces in the Age of Total War 1789-1945 (Hardcover)
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The first two decades after the end of the Cold War were
characterised by government's desires to reduce the sizes of their
armed forces, not least in order to save money. Hand in hand with
this general reduction went an intellectual and doctrinal
re-orientation of the armies from conventional warfare to
counter-insurgency operations. These trends combined had a deep
impact on all armies, in particular in Europe. The geo-political
landscape and the real and perceived threats from terrorist groups
allowed for such developments to take place. As a result,
capabilities were lost and the current generation of army leaders
have lost the ability to think in terms of large-scale,
conventional military operations. Recent changes to the
geo-political situation and current developments in Eastern Europe
have resulted in a new shift of thinking. The pendulum has now
swung back to large-scale, conventional operations. Once again,
this has huge implications for the forces, from training to
equipment. Today, armies are growing again in size and all armies
look back to the past in order to learn something about the
build-up, composition and use of large formations. Lessons that had
been learned by armies the hard way and had been the accepted
wisdom for decades or even centuries now have to be re-learnt. It
is these lessons from history that this book addresses. What does
history tell us about these processes? How did armies prepare and
train for a major conflict in times of peace? What internal
structure did the armies adopt? What were the problems in the areas
of equipment and how could an army ensure that in the case of war
enough of the right material was available? How did the armies
ensure that the doctrine and training used in a small army was
adequate for a much enlarged army in the case of total war? All
these questions were as relevant then as they are now. This
anthology analyses a number of case studies and provides insights
into themes and topics that characterised the so-called
'reconstitution' of armies in their historical and social contexts.
The emphasis is on land forces, but air forces and navies of the
relevant countries are also included. The period covered is the
"age of total war" from the French Revolution to the end of the
Second World War, which provides the intellectual framework for the
challenges that armies are facing today.
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