Piercing the Fog of War
The Theory and Practice of Command in the British and German Armies, 1918-1940
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781804514788
- ISBN-101804514780
- Better World Books9781804514788
- Open LibraryOL50627380M
Classifications
- LCCUB210.S2 2024
Description
Since the late 1970s, anglophone and German military literature has been fascinated by the Wehrmacht's command system, especially the practice of 'Auftragstaktik'. There have been many descriptions of the doctrine, and examinations of its historical origins, as well as unflattering comparisons with the approaches of the British and American armies prior to their adoption of Mission Command in the late 1980s. Almost none of these, however, have sought to understand the different approaches to command in the context of a fundamental characteristic of warfare - friction. The result is intended to offer a new and deeper understanding of both the nature of command as a response to friction, and the factors that need to be in place in order to allow a given command approach to achieve success.
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