Advanced Land Warfare
Hot off the press ...
This post made its debut in April of 2023.
The good people at the Oxford University Press have just released Advanced Land Warfare. Edited by Mikael Weissman and Niklas Nilsson (both of the Swedish Defense University), this anthology looks at the subject at hand from a wide variety of perspectives.
You can get a PDF copy of the book at the “global” website of the Oxford University Press. (Click the little beige box in the upper right hand corner marked “open access.”)
If you would like a quick overview of my own contribution to the book (“The Operational Cultures of American Ground Forces”), take a look at “The Paradox of the Five Paragraph Order.”
If you would like a PDF copy of ‘The Operational Cultures of American Ground Forces’ (that is, the chapter rather than the book as a whole), please visit the Military Learning Library.
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A terrific chapter on operational culture! Dovetails nicely with a manuscript I'm shopping around on the intellectual ferment (1865-1918) that produced the "modern" American army.