The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
Title | The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050 |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2001 |
Authors | Knox, MacGregor, and Williamson Murray |
Number of Pages | 203 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
City | Cambridge |
Abstract | This volume 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. |
URL | https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/dynamics-of-military-revolution-13002050/E681217568FBBFC3EA3ADC9AF28959A5 |
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