The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050
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The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050

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The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050

About this book

The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: 'military revolutions', which are driven by vast social and political changes; and 'revolutions in military affairs', which military institutions have directed, although usually with great difficulty and ambiguous results. By providing both a conceptual framework and a historical context for thinking about revolutionary changes in military affairs, the work establishes a baseline for understanding the patterns of change, innovation, and adaptation that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century - beginning with Edward III's revolutionary changes in medieval warfare, through the development of modern Western military institutions in seventeenth-century France, to the cataclysmic changes of the First World War and the German Blitzkrieg victories of 1940. This history provides a guide for thinking about military revolutions in the coming century, which are as inevitable as they are difficult to predict.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of figures and tables
  9. 1 Thinking about revolutions in warfare
  10. 2 "As if a new sun had arisen": England's fourteenth-century RMA
  11. 3 Forging the Western army in seventeenth-century France
  12. 4 Mass politics and nationalism as military revolution: The French Revolution and after
  13. 5 Surviving military revolution: The U.S. Civil War
  14. 6 The Prusso-German RMA, 1840–1871
  15. 7 The battlefleet revolution, 1885–1914
  16. 8 The First World War and the birth of modern warfare
  17. 9 May 1940: Contingency and fragility of the German RMA
  18. 10 Conclusion: The future behind us
  19. Index