03037nam 2200565 450 991079466920332120210707133056.01-5017-5847-01-5017-5845-410.1515/9781501758478(CKB)4100000011960974(MiAaPQ)EBC6357587(DE-B1597)572402(DE-B1597)9781501758478(StDuBDS)EDZ0002656282(OCoLC)1262307259(EXLCZ)99410000001196097420210630d2021 fy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDying to learn wartime lessons from the Western Front /Michael A. Hunzeker[electronic resource]Ithaca :Cornell University Press,2021.1 online resource (260 pages)Cornell studies in security affairsCornell scholarship onlineAlso issued in print: 2021.1-5017-5846-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Wartime Learning -- Chapter 1 Assessment, Command, and Training Theory -- Chapter 2 Learning on the Western Front -- Chapter 3 The German Army on the Western Front -- Chapter 4 The British Army on the Western Front -- Chapter 5 The French Army on the Western Front -- Conclusion Alternative Explanations and Policy Implications -- Notes -- IndexIn '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.Cornell studies in security affairs.Cornell scholarship online.World War, 1914-1918CampaignsWestern FrontMilitary art and scienceEuropeHistory20th centuryTacticsHistory20th centuryWorld War, 1914-1918CampaignsMilitary art and scienceHistoryTacticsHistory355.00904NP 4450rvkHunzeker Michael A.1582456StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910794669203321Dying to learn3864881UNINA