Fascist and liberal visions of war : Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and other modernists / Azar Gat.

By:

Gat, Azar

Material type:

TextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.Description: xi, 334 p ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0198207158

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

DDC classification:

355.02 21

LOC classification:

U21 .G22

Other classification:

89.80
NK 7000
NK 7015
c 83.3
355

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Contents:

pt. I. Fascist Modernism and Visionaries of Machine Warfare. 1. Introduction: The 'Janus Face' of Fascism. 2. J.F.C. Fuller: Positivism, Evolution, Fascism, and Future Warfare. 3. Futurism, Proto-Fascist Italian Culture, and the Sources of Douhetism. 4. German Right-Wing Radicalism, Strategic Adventurism, and Mechanized Warfare. 5. Comparisons and Contrasts (I): American Populism, Progressivism, and Mid-West Technological Modernism. 6. Comparisons and Contrasts (II): Marxism, Modernism, and the Doctrine of 'Deep Battle'. 7. Conclusion -- pt. II. Liddell Hart, Modern, and 'Post-Modern' Strategy. 1. Introduction. 2. Background: The First World War in Western Consciousness. 3. Theory: Limited War, Moderate Peace, and the Strategy of Indirect Approach. 4. Policy: Defence of the West (I): Containment in the 1930s. 5. Policy: Defence of the West (II): Hot War-Cold War. 6. Conclusion: 'The Western Way in Warfare', Past and Future.

Summary: Showing how theories of mechanized war in the air and on land developed throughout the industrial world in the first decades of the 20th century, this text examines how the pioneers of these theories were associated with fascism.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-328) and index.

Showing how theories of mechanized war in the air and on land developed throughout the industrial world in the first decades of the 20th century, this text examines how the pioneers of these theories were associated with fascism.

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