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eBook
Dying to Learn
2021
Overview
In Dying to Learn
, Michael Hunzeker develops a novel theory to explain how
wartime militaries learn. He focuses on the Western Front,
which witnessed three great-power armies struggle to cope with
deadlock throughout the First World War, as the British, French,
and German armies all pursued the same solutions-assault tactics,
combined arms, and elastic defense in depth. By the end of the war,
only the German army managed to develop and implement a set of
revolutionary offensive, defensive, and combined arms doctrines
that in hindsight represented the best way to fight.
Hunzeker identifies three organizational variables that
determine how fighting militaries generate new ideas, distinguish
good ones from bad ones, and implement the best of them across the
entire organization. These factors are: the degree to which
leadership delegates authority on the battlefield; how effectively
the organization retains control over soldier and officer training;
and whether or not the military possesses an independent doctrinal
assessment mechanism.
Through careful study of the British, French, and German
experiences in the First World War, Dying to Learn
provides a model that shows how a resolute focus on analysis,
command, and training can help prepare modern militaries for
adapting amidst high-intensity warfare in an age of revolutionary
technological change.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Europe
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / Military / Strategy
/ HISTORY / Military / World War I
/ Military
/ Military art and science-Europe-History-20th century
/ Political Science & Political History
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European
/ Strategy
/ Tactics
/ Tactics on the western front
ISBN
9781501758454, 1501758454, 1501758462, 9781501758461, 9781501758478, 1501758470
