War, strategy and the modern state, 1792-1914 / / Carl Cavanagh Hodge

• Autore: Hodge Carl Cavanagh
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 355.009
• Soggetto topico: Military history
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Napoleonic warfare -- 2. Far-distant aggression : Anglo-French expeditionary warfare -- 3. Second Republic, Second Reich : American and Prussian wars of national unity -- 4. America, Japan, and the new navalism -- 5. Militarism and the modern state, 1890-1914.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is a comparative study of military operations conducted my modern states between the French Revolution and World War I. It examines the complex relationship between political purpose and strategy on the one hand, and the challenge of realizing strategic goals through military operations on the other. It argues further that following the experience of the Napoleonic Wars military strength was awarded a primary status in determining the comparative modernity of all the Great Powers; that military goals came progressively to distort a sober understanding of the national interest; that a genuinely political and diplomatic understanding of national strategy was lost; and that these developments collectively rendered the military and political catastrophe of 1914 not inevitable yet probable.
• Titolo autorizzato: War, strategy and the modern state, 1792-1914
• ISBN: 1-315-39138-4; 1-315-39136-8; 1-315-39137-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910153189903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Warfare, society and culture.