The myth and reality of German warfare : operational thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger / Colonel Gerhard P. Gross, Bundeswehr ; edited by Major General David T. Zabecki, USA (Ret.) ; foreword by Robert M. Citino.

By: Gross, Gerhard Paul, 1958- [author.]Contributor(s): Zabecki, David T [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Foreign military studiesPublisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2016Description: 1 online resource (465 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813168388Subject(s): Military planning -- Germany -- History -- 20th century | Military planning -- Germany -- History -- 19th century | Germany -- History, Military -- 20th century | Germany -- History, Military -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Myth and reality of German warfare : operational thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger.DDC classification: 355.401 LOC classification: DD101.5 | .G76 2016Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction -- Definitions: tactics, operations, strategy -- Factors and constants: space, time, and forces -- The beginnings: planning, mobility, and a system of expedients -- The sword of Damocles: a two-front war -- Bitter awakening: World War I -- Old wine in new wineskins: operational thinking in the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht between reality and utopia -- Lost victories, or the limits of operational thinking -- Operational thinking in the age of the atom -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Definitions: tactics, operations, strategy -- Factors and constants: space, time, and forces -- The beginnings: planning, mobility, and a system of expedients -- The sword of Damocles: a two-front war -- Bitter awakening: World War I -- Old wine in new wineskins: operational thinking in the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht between reality and utopia -- Lost victories, or the limits of operational thinking -- Operational thinking in the age of the atom -- Conclusion.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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