Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

by Anthony King and Anthony King

Book Overview

How do small groups of combat soldiers perform on the battlefield and maintain their cohesion under fire? Why are they willing to fight for each other? These questions have long intrigued social scientists, military historians, and philosophers. Based on extensive research and drawing on graphic analysis of close quarter combat from the Somme to Sangin, this book puts forward a novel and challenging answer to this question. Against the common presumption...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198843771
• ISBN13: 9780198843771
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"