The myth and reality of German warfare : : operational thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger / / Colonel Gerhard P. Gross, Bundeswehr ; edited by Major General David T. Zabecki, USA (Ret.) ; foreword by Robert M. Citino.
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| Superior document: | Foreign military studies |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lexington, Kentucky : : The University Press of Kentucky,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Foreign military studies.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (465 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Definitions: tactics, operations, strategy
- Factors and constants: space, time, and forces
- The beginnings: planning, mobility, and a system of expedients
- The sword of Damocles: a two-front war
- Bitter awakening: World War I
- Old wine in new wineskins: operational thinking in the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht between reality and utopia
- Lost victories, or the limits of operational thinking
- Operational thinking in the age of the atom
- Conclusion.