Van Creveld, Martin 1946- creator text bibliography History mau Cambridge, Mass Harvard University Press 1985 monographic eng

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vii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm 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. 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. Martin van Creveld. Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-332) and index. ACLS e-books permit unlimited multi-user access. Command and control systems History Command of troops History Commandement militaire Histoire Commandement des troupes Histoire Command and control systems Command of troops F�uhrung Geschichte Milit�ar Oorlogvoering Bevelvoering Command and control systems History Command of troops History Military operations Command & control UB212 V11 URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ Van Creveld, Martin, 1946- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985 (OCoLC)558401135 Van Creveld, Martin, 1946- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985 (OCoLC)608368167 0674144406 9780674144408 9780674144415 0674144414 84012934 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.32009 http://library.ncl.ac.uk/openurl/?u.ignore_date_coverage=true&rft.mms_id=9912345831702411 https://liverpool.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.32009 http://libanswers.liverpool.ac.uk/faq/182315 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.32009 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.32009 http://library.ncl.ac.uk/openurl/?u.ignore_date_coverage=true&rft.mms_id=9912345831702411 https://liverpool.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.32009 http://libanswers.liverpool.ac.uk/faq/182315 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.32009 ACLS e-books permit unlimited multi-user access. DLC 840627 20250821133051.0 ocm10949797 eng