05551cam a2200757 a 4500 ocm10949797 OCoLC 20250821133051.0 840627s1985 maua b 001 0 eng 84012934 GB8828759 bnb 011969938 Uk 0674144406 (alk. paper) 9780674144408 (alk. paper) 9780674144415 0674144414 2027/heb.32009 hdl AU@ 000003420764 DEBBG BV000308274 DEBSZ 017489318 GBVCP 019864302 GEBAY 375115 HEBIS 126006776 HEBIS 23380093X NZ1 165701 NZ1 2859753 YDXCP 534885 (OCoLC)10949797 (OCoLC)17916407 (OCoLC)1145195767 (OCoLC)1153243845 (OCoLC)1165725255 DLC eng GAFCSC LIBRARY OCLCA OCLCG DHA UKUOY OCLCQ S#L OCLCO CPS OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO CNTRU OCLCA BWN IL4J6 EUN OCLCO LVT UNOMP S2H OCLCO OCLCQ NKM OCLCO OCLCL OCLCQ OCLCL IG# OCLCL UB212 V11 Van Creveld, Martin, 1946- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxd44jGDMY7DWQfyTdJDq Command in war / Martin van Creveld. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985. vii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-332) and index. Introduction : on command -- The stone age of command -- The revolution in strategy -- Railroads, rifles, and wires -- The timetable war -- Masters of mobile warfare -- The helicopter and the computer -- Conclusion : reflections on command. ACLS e-books permit unlimited multi-user access. 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 K�oniggr�atz campaign, the Arab-Israeli war of 1973, and the Americans in Vietnam--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. -- Publisher's description. Command and control systems History. Command of troops History. Commandement militaire Histoire. Commandement des troupes Histoire. Command and control systems fast Command of troops fast F�uhrung gnd Geschichte gnd Milit�ar gnd Oorlogvoering. gtt Bevelvoering. gtt Command and control systems History. nli Command of troops History. nli Military operations Command & control History fast has work: Command in war (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFw3VvJDckbGRPCfwpCvVy https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ Online version: Van Creveld, Martin, 1946- Command in war. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985 (OCoLC)558401135 Online version: Van Creveld, Martin, 1946- Command in war. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985 (OCoLC)608368167 Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.32009 http://library.ncl.ac.uk/openurl/?u.ignore_date_coverage=true&rft.mms_id=9912345831702411 53115275490002411 <img src="/screens/gifs/go4.gif" alt="Go button" border="0" width="21" height="21" hspace="7" align="middle"> View this e-book online https://liverpool.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.32009 http://libanswers.liverpool.ac.uk/faq/182315 Reading advice (software, printing, accessibility, privacy) Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.32009 lcc BK UB212 V11 0 NO HOLDINGS IN GHUCC - 785 OTHER HOLDINGS 3517 3517