Command or Control?
Subtitle: Command, Training and Tactics in the British and German Armies, 1888-1918
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 29, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780714645704
Subjects: History; Military tactics; First World War, 1914-1918; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; History: World; Military Command, Control, And Communication; Military Training; Technology & Industrial Arts; Military doctrine; Germany; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Military Science; Political Science / International Security; General; 19th century; 20th century; Great Britain
First sentence: 'Is the British Army 50 years out of date as a fighting force?" asked Captain Graeme C. Wynne in 1957, arguing that the army was indeed out of date, owing to a failure to develop its tactical ideas beyond the sterile practices employed on the Somme and the retention of the concept that 'l'artillerie conquiert, l'infanterie occupe'.