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" The challenge of change : "
edited by Harold R. Winton and David R. Mets.
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BL
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585849
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b415068
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| Title & Author
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The challenge of change : : military institutions and new realities, 1918-1941 /\ edited by Harold R. Winton and David R. Mets.
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| Publication Statement
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska,, c2000.
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| Series Statement
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Studies in war, society, and the military
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xix, 246 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0803247931 (cl : alk. paper)
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: 9780803247932 (cl : alk. paper)
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: 0803298358 (pbk.)
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: 9780803298354 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : on military change / Harold R. Winton. -- Resting uncomfortably on its laurels : the Army of interwar France / Eugenia C. Kiesling. -- A comprehensive approach to change : reform in the German Army in the interwar period / James S. Corum. -- Tanks, votes, and budgets : the politics of mechanization and armored warfare in Britain, 1919-1939 / Harold R. Winton. -- Military reform and the Red Army, 1918-1941 : Bolsheviks, voyenspetsy, and the Young Red Commanders / Jacob W. Kipp. -- From frontier constabulary to modern army : the U.S. Army between the world wars / David E. Johnson. -- Military innovation and the Whig perspective of history / David E. Showalter. -- List of contributors. -- Index.
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"The Challenge of Change examines how military institutions attempted to meet the demands of the new strategic, political, and technological realities of the turbulent era between the First and Second World Wars. The contributors chose France, Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States as focus countries because their military institutions endeavored to develop both the material capacity and the conceptual framework for the conduct of modern industrialized warfare on a continental scale.
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Also included are an introduction describing the intellectual and practical challenges facing the military reformer in peacetime and a concluding essay by Dennis Showalter drawing together the issues examined in the preceding studies and setting these themes in an interpretive, historiographical context. The Challenge of Change has been designed to meet the needs of historians, military professionals, and defense analysts."--BOOK JACKET.
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Military policy-- History-- 20th century.
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Armed Forces-- History-- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Causes.
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UA11.C465 2000
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Winton, Harold R.,1942-
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Mets, David R.
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