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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln, NB :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2015]
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| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A Scientific Way of War : |b Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought / |c Ian C. Hope. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Colonial and early national military science -- Army reforms, 1815-1820 -- West Point's scientific curriculum -- Internal improvements -- Jacksonian military science -- Military science during and after the Mexican War -- Antebellum military science -- Military science in the Civil War -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. West Point curricula -- Appendix B. Antebellum and Civil War officer statistics. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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