A Scientific Way of War: Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought

by Ian Clarence Hope

Book Overview

While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country, Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study of military science. Officers of the regular army and instructors at the military academy and their political superiors all believed strongly in the possibility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496230558
• ISBN13: 9781496230553
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"