Military Heretics: The Unorthodox in Policy and Strategy

This collection uses a series of case studies to assess the impact of heretical military leaders who...
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Author: Roch Legault
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Military Heretics: The Unorthodox in Policy and Strategy by Legault, Roch

Military Heretics: The Unorthodox in Policy and Strategy

$358.63

Military Heretics: The Unorthodox in Policy and Strategy

$358.63
Author: Roch Legault
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
This collection uses a series of case studies to assess the impact of heretical military leaders who developed policy and strategy during war and peace in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The issue for each contributor is not necessarily to show whether the endeavors of individuals and their unorthodoxy were successful or unsuccessful--though this important consideration is not ignored. Rather, each chapter offers differing points of view on accomplishments and failure because, as is so often the experience in historical study, the record is mixed; and this is especially so in terms of the application of military power in the period since the Napoleonic wars. Technological and scientific innovation, the rise of mass armies, the advent of total war, and the need to develop effective armed forces in a period of rapid change prompted new approaches in policy and strategy. In this period, it is clear that a dialectic in military thinking existed between those who followed what can be thought of as orthodox ideas, based generally on the lessons of preceding wars, and heretics who advocate new policies and strategies.

Author: Roch Legault
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 11/30/1993
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.46w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780275945541

About the Author

B.J.C. McKERCHER is an Associate Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The Second Baldwin Government and the United States, 1924-1929 and Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography, and editor of Arms Limitation and Disarmament (Praeger, 1992).

HAMISH ION is an Associate Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. Ion is the author of The Cross and the Rising Sun: The Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1827-1931 (1990).


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