Dying to learn : wartime lessons from the Western Front / / Michael A. Hunzeker [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Hunzeker Michael A.
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| Titolo: |
Dying to learn : wartime lessons from the Western Front / / Michael A. Hunzeker [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (260 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 355.00904 |
| Soggetto topico: | World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Western Front |
| Military art and science - Europe - History - 20th century | |
| Tactics - History - 20th century | |
| Classificazione: | NP 4450 |
| Note generali: | Also issued in print: 2021. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In '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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dying to learn |
| ISBN: | 1-5017-5847-0 |
| 1-5017-5845-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910806106003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Cornell studies in security affairs.
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