The Myth and Reality of German Warfare : Operational Thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger /

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"Surrounded by potential adversaries, nineteenth-century Prussia and twentieth-century Germany faced the formidable prospect of multifront wars and wars of attrition. To counteract these threats, generations of general staff officers were educated in operational thinking, the main tenets of whi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gross, Gerhard Paul, 1958- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Zabecki, David T. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Military planning.
HISTORY > Military > Strategy.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
Planification militaire > Allemagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Planification militaire > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Military planning > Germany > History > 19th century.
Military planning > Germany > History > 20th century.
Germany.
Allemagne > Histoire militaire > 19e siecle.
Allemagne > Histoire militaire > 20e siecle.
Germany > History, Military > 19th century.
Germany > History, Military > 20th century.
Military history.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Definitions: tactics, operations, strategy
  • Factors and constants: space, time, and forces
  • The beginnings: planning, mobility, and a system of expedients
  • The sword of Damocles: a two-front war
  • Bitter awakening: World War I
  • Old wine in new wineskins: operational thinking in the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht between reality and utopia
  • Lost victories, or the limits of operational thinking
  • Operational thinking in the age of the atom
  • Conclusion.

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