The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050

The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: ?military revolutions?, which are driven by vast social and political changes; and ?revolutions in military affairs?, which military institutions have directed, although usually with great difficulty and ambiguous results. By providing both a conceptual framework and a historical context for thinking about revolutionary changes in military affairs, the work establishes a baseline for understanding the patterns of change, innovation, and adaptation that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century ? beginning with Edward III?s revolutionary changes in medieval warfare, through the development of modern Western military institutions in seventeenth-century France, to the cataclysmic changes of the First World War and the German Blitzkrieg victories of 1940. This history provides a guide for thinking about military revolutions in the coming century, which are as inevitable as they are difficult to predict. – ISBN-13: – 9781107385610 – Publisher: – Cambridge University Press – Publication Date: – 08/27/2001 – Sold by: – Barnes & Noble – Format: – E-book – Sales rank: – 487,611 – –