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The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050

The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Cambridge University Press

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Book information

ISBN: 9780521800792
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 355.009
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 203
Weight: 476g
Height: 238mm
Width: 162mm
Spine width: 19mm