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A Military Transformed? - Adaptation and Innovation in the British Military, 1792-1945 (Paperback)
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A Military Transformed? - Adaptation and Innovation in the British Military, 1792-1945 (Paperback)
Series: Wolverhampton Military Studies
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Between 1792 and 1945, the character of warfare changed. Battalions
standing shoulder to shoulder during the Napoleonic era gave way to
the industrialised, modern armies of the First and Second World
Wars. The organisation and operational methods of the major
military powers dramatically altered during this period and the
British forces were no different. From the transition of the Royal
Navy's ships to oil from coal to the creation of an independent air
force in 1918, the British military pioneered key innovations that
affected the character of war on land, sea and air. To date, many
commentators and historians have focused on contemporary debates or
specific historical examples. A Military Transformed? Adaptation
and Innovation in the British Military from 1792 to 1945 brings
many of these debates together and forms a broader picture. The
complexity of change in the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air
Force is explored in chapters drawing on new and original research.
Examples covered include the British military performance in the
Napoleonic Wars, the developments of the Army medical services in
the late-nineteenth century, the Royal Navy's introduction of the
Whitehead torpedo in the 1870s, air power doctrine on the eve of
the First World War, British Army reorganisation in 1918 and
amphibious operations in the Second World War. Spanning the period
of both peace and war this ground-breaking survey illustrates the
different drivers for transformation and innovation. Culture,
technology, tactics, organisation, personality, doctrine, command
and context have all shaped the speed and development of the
British Forces. A Military Transformed? Adaptation and Innovation
in the British Military from 1792 to 1945 shows that while it was
neither a revolutionary nor a conservative organisation, the
British military certainly evolved and reacted to the character of
warfare in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; even if
change, at times, did not come easily.
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