Military Heretics

The Unorthodox in Policy and Strategy

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

AvRoch Legault,B. J. C. McKercher,B. J. C. Mckercher,A. Hamish Ion

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This collection uses a series of case studies to assess the impact of heretical military leaders who developed policy and strategy during war and peace in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The issue for each contributor is not necessarily to show whether the endeavors of individuals and their unorthodoxy were successful or unsuccessful--though this important consideration is not ignored. Rather, each chapter offers differing points of view on accomplishments and failure because, as is so often the experience in historical study, the record is mixed; and this is especially so in terms of the application of military power in the period since the Napoleonic wars. Technological and scientific innovation, the rise of mass armies, the advent of total war, and the need to develop effective armed forces in a period of rapid change prompted new approaches in policy and strategy. In this period, it is clear that a dialectic in military thinking existed between those who followed what can be thought of as orthodox ideas, based generally on the lessons of preceding wars, and heretics who advocate new policies and strategies.

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Utgivningsdatum1993-11-30
Mått161 x 240 x 18 mm
Vikt552 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780275945541

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B.J.C. McKERCHER is an Associate Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The Second Baldwin Government and the United States, 1924-1929 and Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography, and editor of Arms Limitation and Disarmament (Praeger, 1992).HAMISH ION is an Associate Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. Ion is the author of The Cross and the Rising Sun: The Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1827-1931 (1990).

Introduction: Military Heretics: The Unorthodox in Policy and Strategy by B.J.C. McKercher and A. Hamish Ion Making and Breaking the Rules: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Heresy in Modern War by John Gooch New Wars and Old: Felix Calleja and the Independence War of Mexico, 1810-1816 by Christon I. Archer From Genius to Intellect: Unorthodox Union Officers in the American Civil War by Carol Reardon Alfred von Tirpitz's Heretical Orthodoxy by Ivo Lambi The Youth of General A.A. Brusilov: The Making of an Unconventional, Conventional Professional by David R. Jones Hugh Trenchard: Making the Unorthodox Orthodox by Scot Robertson Admiral Kato Kanji: Heretic, Hero, or the Unorthodox in Pursuit of an Orthodox Naval Policy by Ian Gow Moshe Dayan: Above the Rules by Michael I. Handel The Mark of the Heretic by John A. English Bibliography Index