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Military Heretics - The Unorthodox in Policy and Strategy (Hardcover, New)
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Military Heretics - The Unorthodox in Policy and Strategy (Hardcover, New)
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This collection uses a series of case studies to assess the impact
of heretical military leaders who developed policy and strategy
during war and peace in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The
issue for each contributor is not necessarily to show whether the
endeavors of individuals and their unorthodoxy were successful or
unsuccessful--though this important consideration is not ignored.
Rather, each chapter offers differing points of view on
accomplishments and failure because, as is so often the experience
in historical study, the record is mixed; and this is especially so
in terms of the application of military power in the period since
the Napoleonic wars. Technological and scientific innovation, the
rise of mass armies, the advent of total war, and the need to
develop effective armed forces in a period of rapid change prompted
new approaches in policy and strategy. In this period, it is clear
that a dialectic in military thinking existed between those who
followed what can be thought of as orthodox ideas, based generally
on the lessons of preceding wars, and heretics who advocate new
policies and strategies.
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