中图分类法:
E0-05 版次:
著者:
Murray, Williamson.
题名:
Military adaptation in war : [ with fear of change /] / ,
出版发行:
出版地: New York : 出版社: Cambridge University Press, 出版日期: 2011.
载体形态:
ix, 342 p. ; 24 cm.
内容提要:
"Military Adaptation in War addresses one of the most persistent, yet rarely examined, problems that military organizations confront: namely, the problem of how to adapt under the trying, terrifying conditions of war. This work builds on the volume that Professor Williamson Murray edited with Allan Millett on military innovation (a quite different problem, though similar in some respects). In Clausewitzian terms, war is a contest, an interactive duel, which is of indeterminate length and presents a series of intractable problems at every level, from policy and strategy down to the tactical. Moreover, the fact that the enemy is adapting at the same time presents military organizations with an ever-changing set of conundrums that offer up no easy solutions. As the British general, James Wolfe, suggested before Quebec: "War is an option of