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Dying to Learn - Wartime Lessons from the Western Front (Hardcover)
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Dying to Learn - Wartime Lessons from the Western Front (Hardcover)
Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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In Dying to Learn, Michael Hunzeker develops a novel theory to
explain how wartime militaries learn. He focuses on the Western
Front, which witnessed three great-power armies struggle to cope
with deadlock throughout the First World War, as the British,
French, and German armies all pursued the same solutions-assault
tactics, combined arms, and elastic defense in depth. By the end of
the war, only the German army managed to develop and implement a
set of revolutionary offensive, defensive, and combined arms
doctrines that in hindsight represented the best way to fight.
Hunzeker identifies three organizational variables that determine
how fighting militaries generate new ideas, distinguish good ones
from bad ones, and implement the best of them across the entire
organization. These factors are: the degree to which leadership
delegates authority on the battlefield; how effectively the
organization retains control over soldier and officer training; and
whether or not the military possesses an independent doctrinal
assessment mechanism. Through careful study of the British, French,
and German experiences in the First World War, Dying to Learn
provides a model that shows how a resolute focus on analysis,
command, and training can help prepare modern militaries for
adapting amidst high-intensity warfare in an age of revolutionary
technological change.
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