Command in War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Command in War write by Martin Van Creveld. This book was released on 1987-01-01. Command in War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy. In vivid descriptions of key battles and campaigns—among others, Napoleon at Jena, Moltke’s Königgrätz campaign, the Arab–Israeli war of 1973, and the Americans in Vietnam—Martin van Creveld focuses on the means of command and shows how those means worked in practice. He finds that technological advances such as the railroad, breech-loading rifles, the telegraph and later the radio, tanks, and helicopters all brought commanders not only new tactical possibilities but also new limitations. Although vast changes have occurred in military thinking and technology, the one constant has been an endless search for certainty—certainty about the state and intentions of the enemy’s forces; certainty about the manifold factors that together constitute the environment in which war is fought, from the weather and terrain to radioactivity and the presence of chemical warfare agents; and certainty about the state, intentions, and activities of one’s own forces. The book concludes that progress in command has usually been achieved less by employing more advanced technologies than by finding ways to transcend the limitations of existing ones.
A Question of Command
A Question of Command - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Question of Command write by Mark Moyar. This book was released on 2009-10-20. A Question of Command available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Moyar presents a wide-ranging history of counterinsurgency which draws on the historical record and interviews with hundreds of counterinsurgency veterans. He identifies the ten critical attributes of counterinsurgency leadership and reveals why these attributes have been more prevalent in some organizations than others.
Howlin' Mad Vs. the Army
Howlin' Mad Vs. the Army - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Howlin' Mad Vs. the Army write by Harry A. Gailey. This book was released on 1986. Howlin' Mad Vs. the Army available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Erwin Rommel write by Pier Paolo Battistelli. This book was released on 2012-02-20. Erwin Rommel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nicknamed 'The Desert Fox' for his cunning command of the Afrika Korps, Erwin Rommel remains one of the most popular and studied of Germany's World War II commanders. He got his first taste of combat in World War I, where his daring command earned him the Blue Max, Germany's highest decoration for bravery. He followed this up with numerous successes early in World War II in both Europe and Africa, before facing his biggest challenge – organizing the defence of France. Implicated in the plot to kill Hitler, Rommel chose suicide over a public trial. This book looks at the life of this daring soldier, focusing on his style of command and the tactical decisions that earned him his fearsome reputation.
Field Command
Field Command - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Field Command write by Charles ""Sid"" Heal. This book was released on 2012. Field Command available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Field Command is a first of its kind; a full-length tactical science textbook focused specifically on crisis situations faced by the law enforcement community. It expands on the concepts laid out in Heal's Sound Doctrine: A Tactical Primer. The concepts and principles are taken from tactical texts and military field manuals and are presented as close to how they are used as possible. To facilitate understanding, illustrations are abundant and not only clarify the text but amplify it with new insights and applications.
