Format:
1 Online-Ressource (188 pages)
ISBN:
9780807882573
Series Statement:
Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era
Content:
When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine Henri Jomini's Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardon shows, Jomini's work was only one voice in what ultimately became a lively and contentious national discourse about how the North should conduct war at a time when warfare itself was rapidly changing. She argues that the absence of a strong intellectual foundation for the conduct of war at its start--
Note:
Exorcising the ghost of Jomini: debating strategy in the Civil War northWho shall command? The cult of genius versus the primacy of the professional -- Lost in Jomini's silence: the human factor in war -- Epilogue.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807835609
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other : The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North
Language:
English
Keywords:
Jomini, Antoine Henri de 1779-1869
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USA
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Sezessionskrieg
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Kriegführung
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Militärisches Denken
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