The American Military Library; Or, Compendium of the Modern Tactics
Author : William Duane
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Page : 572 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 1809
Category : Military art and science
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Author : William Duane
Publisher :
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 1809
Category : Military art and science
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Author : William Duane
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 1809
Category : Military art and science
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Author : American antiquarian society
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : American Antiquarian Society. Library
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 1837
Category : America
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Author : Paddy Griffith
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300066630
Historians have portrayed British participation in World War I as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine guns, with untried new military technology, and incompetent generals who threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In this book a renowned military historian studies the evolution of British infantry tactics during the war and challenges this interpretation, showing that while the British army's plans and technologies failed persistently during the improvised first half of the war, the army gradually improved its technique, technology, and, eventually, its' self-assurance. By the time of its successful sustained offensive in the fall of 1918, says Paddy Griffith, the British army was demonstrating a battlefield skill and mobility that would rarely be surpassed even during World War II. Evaluating the great gap that exists between theory and practice, between textbook and bullet-swept mudfield, Griffith argues that many battles were carefully planned to exploit advanced tactics and to avoid casualties, but that breakthrough was simply impossible under the conditions of the time. According to Griffith, the British were already masters of "storm troop tactics" by the end of 1916, and in several important respects were further ahead than the Germans would be even in 1918. In fields such as the timing and orchestration of all-arms assaults, predicted artillery fire, "Commando-style" trench raiding, the use of light machine guns, or the barrage fire of heavy machine guns, the British led the world. Although British generals were not military geniuses, says Griffith, they should at least be credited for effectively inventing much of the twentieth-century's art of war.
Author : United States Military Academy. Library
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Military art and science
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Page : 542 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 1809
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Author : Mary Ellen Rowe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313058113
Although a poor replacement for a professional military in wartime, the militia embodied a set of ideas that defined attitudes toward social order, civic responsibility, and the nature and relative powers of the government. It was the supreme expression of civic values in a traditional, communal, agrarian village society. Rowe argues that the antebellum militia should be seen as a social and political institution, rather than a military one, and contends that it is a key to understanding the political and social values of early 19th century America. Ultimately, changing social and political values, demographic change and mobility, and finally the dramatic expansion of federal power occasioned by the Civil War would destroy the traditional militia. Because the militia's functions, failures, and meanings were most clearly apparent in new settlements along the frontier, Rowe examines three case studies that represent successive leaps across the Appalachians (Kentucky), the Mississippi (Missouri), and the Great Plains (Washington Territory). The first generation of settlers in Kentucky deliberately built a formal militia organization, in part for self-defense, in part as an explicit ideological and political statement. Despite both pre-existing Franco-Spanish militia and federal attempts to use the Territory in militia reform, American settlers in Missouri created a traditional Anglo-American militia there. A generation later, settlers in Washington Territory attempted to do the same, but the effort dissolved in a bitter controversy over the territorial governor's declaration of martial law.
Author : William Addleman Ganoe
Publisher :
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 1924
Category : United States
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Author : Lawrence Delbert Cress
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1469639963
This first study to discuss the important ideological role of the military in the early political life of the nation examines the relationship between revolutionary doctrine and the practical considerations of military planning before and after the American Revolution. Americans wanted and effective army, but they realized that by its very nature the military could destroy freedom as well as preserve it. The security of the new nation was not in dispute but the nature of republicanism itself. Originally published 1982. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.