| War, Strategy and the Modern State, 1792-1914 Contributor(s): Cavanagh Hodge, Carl (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848936133 ISBN-13: 9781848936133 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Strategy |
| Dewey: 355.409 |
| LCCN: 2016025543 |
| Series: Warfare, Society and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.4" W x 9.2" (1.15 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a comparative study of military operations conducted my modern states between the French Revolution and World War I. It examines the complex relationship between political purpose and strategy on the one hand, and the challenge of realizing strategic goals through military operations on the other. It argues further that following the experience of the Napoleonic Wars military strength was awarded a primary status in determining the comparative modernity of all the Great Powers; that military goals came progressively to distort a sober understanding of the national interest; that a genuinely political and diplomatic understanding of national strategy was lost; and that these developments collectively rendered the military and political catastrophe of 1914 not inevitable yet probable. |
