Winner: Paul Birdsall Prize Winner: Society for Military History
book Award When Germany launched its blitzkrieg invasion of France
in 1940, it forever changed the way the world waged war. Although
the Wehrmacht ultimately succumbed to superior Allied firepower in
a two-front war, its stunning operational achievement left a
lasting impression on military commanders throughout the world,
even if their own operations were rarely executed as effectively.
Robert Citino analyzes military campaigns from the second half of
the twentieth century to further demonstrate the difficulty of
achieving decisive results at the operational level. Offering
detailed operational analyses of actual campaigns, Citino describes
how UN forces in Korea enjoyed technological and air superiority
but found the enemy unbeatable; provides analyses of Israeli
operational victories in successive wars until the Arab states
finally grasped the realities of operational-level warfare in 1973;
and tells how the Vietnam debacle continued to shape U.S. doctrine
in surprising ways. Looking beyond major-power conflicts, he also
reveals the lessons of India's blitzkrieg-like drive into Pakistan
in 1971 and of the senseless bloodletting of the Iran-Iraq War.
Citino especially considers the evolution of U.S. doctrine and
assesses the success of Desert Storm in dismantling an entrenched
defending force with virtually no friendly casualties. He also
provides one of the first scholarly analyses of Operation Iraqi
Freedom, showing that its plan was curiously divorced from the
realities of military history, grounded instead on nebulous
theories about expected enemy behavior. Throughout Citino points to
the importance of mobility—especially mobilized armor—in modern
operational warfare and assesses the respective roles of firepower,
training, doctrine, and command and control mechanisms. Brimming
with new insights, Citino's study shows why technical superiority
is no guarantee of victory and why a thorough grounding in the
history of past campaigns is essential to anyone who wishes to
understand modern warfare. Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm provides that
grounding as it addresses the future of operational-level warfare
in the post-9/11 era.
General
| Imprint: |
University Press of Kansas
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
May 2022 |
| Authors: |
Robert M. Citino
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
430 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7006-3401-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
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| LSN: |
0-7006-3401-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780700634019 |
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