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The Echo of Battle : The Army's Way of War / Brian McAllister Linn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674026513
  • 9780674033528
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.033573 22
LOC classification:
  • UA25 .L63 2007eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Fortress America -- 2. Modern Warfare -- 3. Unconventional Warriors -- 4. Providing for War? -- 5. Dissenting Visions -- 6. Atomic War -- 7. From Reformation to Reaction -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: From Lexington and Gettysburg to Normandy and Iraq, wars have defined the United States. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts, developing the strategies, weapons, doctrines, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee future victory. Linn surveys the past assumptions--and errors--that underlie the army's many visions of warfare up to the present day.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Fortress America -- 2. Modern Warfare -- 3. Unconventional Warriors -- 4. Providing for War? -- 5. Dissenting Visions -- 6. Atomic War -- 7. From Reformation to Reaction -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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From Lexington and Gettysburg to Normandy and Iraq, wars have defined the United States. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts, developing the strategies, weapons, doctrines, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee future victory. Linn surveys the past assumptions--and errors--that underlie the army's many visions of warfare up to the present day.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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