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Lädt ... Twentieth-Century warriors: The development of the armed forces of the major military nations in the twentieth-centuryvon Michael Carver
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"It is not a waste of time for those concerned with the military problems of today and tomorrow to improve their understanding of those of yesterday." The concluding sentence of Lord Carver's panoramic military history of the 20th Century is sound advice for national security professionals whose careers will shape the policies of the early decades of the next century. Methodology is critical to successfully pursuing a work of such scope, and Lord Carver's approach is quite sound, if somewhat tedious. The author seeks to paint a canvass composed of seven different, but overlapping, subscenes that equate to the histories of the armed forces of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, the United States of America, Japan and China, from 1900 to 1986. The result is a work that requires no little patience on the part of the reader in order to wade through detailed and repetitious passages to glean the useful nuggets from the seven vignettes and, finally, to profit from viewing the effort as a single piece of historical analysis.
"Carver, former chief of the defense staff in Great Britain, analyzes military dynamics in Britain, France, Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan, China and the United States, showing how the armed forces in each country have reacted to domestic politics and external threat. This military history of our century is a forum for the author's occasionally startling opinions. He believes that the prospect of rapid victory on the part of the aggressor has been a principal cause of war; that none of the wars of this century have been inevitable; that the Soviets had the best system of command in World War II; that Lord Mountbatten's influence on Britain's armed forces was "unrivalled." He calls the current Soviet military "undoubtedly the most formidable war machine the world has ever seen." Of the U.S. armed forces he writes, "The human material has been neglected in the pursuit of technology, the latest example being the Strategic Defense Initiative." (May)" -- Publishers Weekly. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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