LEADER 03037nam 2200565 450 001 9910794669203321 005 20210707133056.0 010 $a1-5017-5847-0 010 $a1-5017-5845-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501758478 035 $a(CKB)4100000011960974 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6357587 035 $a(DE-B1597)572402 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501758478 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002656282 035 $a(OCoLC)1262307259 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011960974 100 $a20210630d2021 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDying to learn $ewartime lessons from the Western Front /$fMichael A. Hunzeker$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (260 pages) 225 1 $aCornell studies in security affairs 225 1 $aCornell scholarship online 300 $aAlso issued in print: 2021. 311 $a1-5017-5846-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction. Wartime Learning -- $tChapter 1 Assessment, Command, and Training Theory -- $tChapter 2 Learning on the Western Front -- $tChapter 3 The German Army on the Western Front -- $tChapter 4 The British Army on the Western Front -- $tChapter 5 The French Army on the Western Front -- $tConclusion Alternative Explanations and Policy Implications -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 8 $aIn 'Dying to Learn,' Michael Hunzeker develops a novel theory to explain how wartime militaries learn. He focuses on the Western Front, which witnessed three great-power armies struggle to cope with deadlock throughout the First World War, as the British, French, and German armies all pursued the same solutions - assault tactics, combined arms, and elastic defense in depth. By the end of the war, only the German army managed to develop and implement a set of revolutionary offensive, defensive, and combined arms doctrines that in hindsight represented the best way to fight. Hunzeker identifies three organizational variables that determine how fighting militaries generate new ideas, distinguish good ones from bad ones, and implement the best of them across the entire organization. 410 0$aCornell studies in security affairs. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns$zWestern Front 606 $aMilitary art and science$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTactics$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCampaigns 615 0$aMilitary art and science$xHistory 615 0$aTactics$xHistory 676 $a355.00904 686 $aNP 4450$2rvk 700 $aHunzeker$b Michael A.$01582456 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794669203321 996 $aDying to learn$93864881 997 $aUNINA