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THE DYNAMICS OF MILITARY REVOLUTION, 1300-2050
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By: |
MacGregor Knox (Editor), Williamson Murray (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£50.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
052180079X |
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9780521800792 |
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
27 August, 2001 |
Pages: |
218 |
Description: |
This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century. |
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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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3 b/w illus. 2 tables |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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