The dynamics of military revolution, 1300-2050

The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: 'military revolutions', which are driven by vast social and political...

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Main Author: Knox, Macgregor
Corporate Author: Europe--History, Military.United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Other Authors: Knox, MacGregor.Murray, Williamson
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press UK ; New York 2001.
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300 0 0 |a xiv, 203 p.  |b ill.  |c 24 cm. 
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505 0 0 |a 1. Introduction Williamson Murray and MacGregor Knox2. 'As if a new sun had arisen': England's fourteenth-century RMA Clifford J. Rogers3. Forging the Western army in seventeenth-century France John A. Lynn4. Mass Politics and nationalism as military revolution: the French Revolution and after MacGregor Knox5. Surviving military revolution: the US Civil War Mark Grimsley6. The Prusso-German RMA, 1840-71 Dennis E. Showalter7. The battlefleet revolution, 1885-1914 Holger H. Herwig8. The First World War and the birth of modern warfare Jonathan B. A. Bailey9. May 1940: contingency and fragility of the German RMA Williamson Murray10. Conclusion: the future behind us Williamson Murray and MacGregor Knox. 
520 0 0 |a The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: 'military revolutions', which are driven by vast social and political changes; and 'revolutions in military affairs', which military institutions have directed, although usually with great difficulty and ambiguous results. By providing both a conceptual framework and a historical context for thinking about revolutionary changes in military affairs, the work establishes a baseline for understanding the patterns of change, innovation, and adaptation that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century - beginning with Edward III's revolutionary changes in medieval warfare, through the development of modern Western military institutions in seventeenth-century France, to the cataclysmic changes of the First World War and the German Blitzkrieg victories of 1940. This history provides a guide for thinking about military revolutions in the coming century, which are as inevitable as they are difficult to predict 
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