The Myth and Reality of German Warfare: Operational Thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger

by Gerhard P. Groß, Gerhard P. Gross, Gerhard Paul Groß

Surrounded by potential adversaries, nineteenth-century Prussia and twentieth-century Germany faced the formidable prospect of multifront wars and wars of attrition. To counteract these threats, generations of general staff officers were educated in operational thinking, the main tenets of which were extremely influential on military planning across the globe and were adopted by American and Soviet armies. In the twentieth century, Germany's art of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813168376
• ISBN13: 9780813168371
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up