The myth and reality of German warfare [electronic resource] :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.
By: Gross, Gerhard Paul [author.].
Contributor(s): Zabecki, David T [editor.] | Project Muse.
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BookSeries: Foreign military studies.Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813168388; 0813168384.Subject(s): Military planning -- Germany -- History -- 19th century | Military planning -- Germany -- History -- 20th century | Germany -- History, Military -- 19th century | Germany -- History, Military -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 355.401 Online resources: Full text available: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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