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

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hope, Ian C. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
United States Military Academy.
United States. > Army.
United States. > Army > Officers > Training of > History > 19th century.
United States Military Academy > History > 19th century.
Military education.
Military art and science.
Armed Forces > Officers > Training of.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
Art et science militaires > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Military education > United States > History > 19th century.
Military art and science > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (400 pages).
ISBN:9780803277182

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