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.
| ISBN-13: | 9781107385610 |
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| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 08/27/2001 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | E-book |
| Sales rank: | 487,611 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
