A Scientific Way of War
Subtitle: Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Aug 01, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780803276857
Description: While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study of military science. Officers of the regular army and instructors at the military academy and their political superiors all believed strongly in the possibility of acquiring a perfect knowledge of war through the proper curriculum.
Notes: Source title: A Scientific Way of War: Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)