TY - BOOK AU - Gross,Gerhard Paul AU - Zabecki,David T. TI - The myth and reality of German warfare: operational thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger T2 - Foreign military studies AV - DD101.5 .G76 2016 U1 - 355.401 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Lexington, Kentucky PB - The University Press of Kentucky KW - Military planning KW - Germany KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 19th century KW - History, Military KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4620080 ER -