02840nam 2200577 450 991082377350332120200520144314.00-8131-6840-60-8131-6838-4(CKB)3710000000772818(StDuBDS)EDZ0001597420(OCoLC)954595792(MdBmJHUP)muse53068(Au-PeEL)EBL4620080(CaPaEBR)ebr11242460(CaONFJC)MIL944007(MiAaPQ)EBC4620080(EXLCZ)99371000000077281820160708d2016 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe myth and reality of German warfare operational thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger /Colonel Gerhard P. Gross, Bundeswehr ; edited by Major General David T. Zabecki, USA (Ret.) ; foreword by Robert M. CitinoLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,2016.1 online resource (465 pages)Foreign military studiesPreviously issued in print: 2016.0-8131-6839-2 0-8131-6837-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Definitions: tactics, operations, strategy -- Factors and constants: space, time, and forces -- The beginnings: planning, mobility, and a system of expedients -- The sword of Damocles: a two-front war -- Bitter awakening: World War I -- Old wine in new wineskins: operational thinking in the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht between reality and utopia -- Lost victories, or the limits of operational thinking -- Operational thinking in the age of the atom -- Conclusion.In this seminal study, Gerhard P. Gross provides a comprehensive examination of the development and failure of German operational thinking over a period of more than a century. He analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of five different armies, from the mid-nineteenth century through the early days of NATO. He also offers fresh interpretations of towering figures of German military history.Foreign military studies.Military planningGermanyHistory20th centuryMilitary planningGermanyHistory19th centuryGermanyHistory, Military20th centuryGermanyHistory, Military19th centuryMilitary planningHistoryMilitary planningHistory355.401Gross Gerhard Paul1958-1682577Zabecki David T.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823773503321The myth and reality of German warfare4052802UNINA