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A Scientific Way of War : Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought /

While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study o...

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Autor principal: Hope, Ian C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumario:While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study of military science. Officers of the regular army and instructors at the military academy and their political superiors all believed strongly in the possibility of acquiring a perfect knowledge of war through the proper curriculum.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (400 pages).
ISBN:9780803277182