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Under the Shadow of Napoleon : French Influence on the American Way of Warfare from Independence to the Eve of World War II / Michael Bonura.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Warfare and Culture ; 3Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814709429
  • 9780814723173
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.477309034 23
LOC classification:
  • UA23 .B714 2012
  • UA23 .B714 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A French Way of Warfare -- 2. Bringing French Warfare to America, 1814–1848 -- 3. American Adaptation of French Warfare, 1848–1865 -- 4. German Professionalism and American Warfare, 1865–1899 -- 5. American Warfare in the Progressive Era, 1899–1918 -- 6. The End of French Influence on American Warfare, 1918–1941 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Notes -- About the Author
Summary: The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the War of 1812, Winfield Scott ensured that America adopted a series of ideas formed in the crucible of the Wars of the French Revolution and epitomized by Napoleon. Reflecting American cultural changes, these French ideas dominated American warfare on the battlefields of the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I. America remained committed to these ideas until cultural pressures and the successes of German Blitzkrieg from 1939 - 1940 led George C. Marshall to orchestrate the adoption of a different understanding of warfare. Michael A. Bonura examines concrete battlefield tactics, army regulations, and theoretical works on war as they were presented in American army education manuals, professional journals, and the popular press, to demonstrate that as a cultural construction, warfare and ways of warfare can be transnational and influence other nations.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A French Way of Warfare -- 2. Bringing French Warfare to America, 1814–1848 -- 3. American Adaptation of French Warfare, 1848–1865 -- 4. German Professionalism and American Warfare, 1865–1899 -- 5. American Warfare in the Progressive Era, 1899–1918 -- 6. The End of French Influence on American Warfare, 1918–1941 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Notes -- About the Author

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The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the War of 1812, Winfield Scott ensured that America adopted a series of ideas formed in the crucible of the Wars of the French Revolution and epitomized by Napoleon. Reflecting American cultural changes, these French ideas dominated American warfare on the battlefields of the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I. America remained committed to these ideas until cultural pressures and the successes of German Blitzkrieg from 1939 - 1940 led George C. Marshall to orchestrate the adoption of a different understanding of warfare. Michael A. Bonura examines concrete battlefield tactics, army regulations, and theoretical works on war as they were presented in American army education manuals, professional journals, and the popular press, to demonstrate that as a cultural construction, warfare and ways of warfare can be transnational and influence other nations.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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