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"An excellent and important contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century Western warfare. Citino's narrative skill and insightful analysis of military battles, operations, and campaigns are especially strong.... Should have broad appeal." JAMES S. CORUM, AUTHOR OF THE ROOTS OF BLITZKRIEG AND THE LUFTWAFFE "Citino's provocative work - with its broad-spectrum coverage and unique time frame - makes a strong case for a continuity of thought and action from the turn of the century to 1940.... A fine work from a master scholar." DENNIS E. SHOWALTER, AUTHOR OF TANNENBERG: CLASH OF EMPIRES
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Since the earliest days of warfare, military operations have followed a predictable formula: after a decisive battle, an army must pursue the enemy and destroy its organization in order to achieve a victorious campaign. But by the mid-19th century, the emergence of massive armies and advanced weaponry - and the concomitant decline in the effectiveness of cavalry - had diminished the practicality of pursuit, producing campaigns that bogged down short of decisive victory. Great battles had become curiously indecisive, decisive campaigns virtually impossible. Robert Citino now tells how European military leaders analyzed and eventually overcame this problem by restoring pursuit to its rightful place in combat and resurrecting the possibility of decisive warfare on the operational level. A study of war at the operational level, this book demonstrates the interplay and tension between technology and doctrine in warfare and reveals how problems surrounding mobility - including such factors as supply lines, command and control, and prewar campaign planning - forced armies to find new ways of fighting. Citino focuses on key campaigns of both major and minor conflicts. Minor wars before 1914 (Boer, Russo-Japanese, and the Balkan Wars of 1912-13) featured instructive examples of operational manoeuvre; World War I witnessed the collapse of operations and the rise of attrition warfare; the Italo-Ethiopian and Spanish Civil Wars held some promise for breaking out of stalemate by incorporating such innovations as air and tank warfare. Ultimately, it was Germany's opening blitzkrieg of World War II that resurrected the decisive campaign as an operational possibility. By grafting new technologies - tanks, aircraft, and radio - onto a long tradition of manoeuvre warfare, the Wehrmacht won decisive victories in the first year of the war and in the process transformed modern military doctrine.
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