The past as prologue : the importance of history to the military profession
By: edited by Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich.
Contributors: Murray, Williamson.; Sinnreich, Richard Hart.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521853774
Subjects: Military history -- Study and teaching.; Military art and science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich; title: Military history and the history of war / Sir Michael Howard; title: The relevance of military history to the military profession : a British view / John Kiszely; title: The relevance of military history to the military profession : a U.S. marine's view / Paul Van Riper; title: Awkward partners : military history and American military education / Richard Hart Sinnreich; title: Thoughts on military history and the profession of arms / Williamson Murray; title: Thucydides as educator / Paul Rahe; title: Clausewitz, history, and the future strategic world / Colin Gray; title: History and the nature of strategy / John Gooch; title: Military transformation in long periods of peace / Andrew Gordon; title: Military history and the pathology of lessons learned : the Russo-Japanese War / Jonathan Bailey; title: Obstacles to innovation and readiness : the British Army's experience, 1919-1939 / Paul Harris; title: What history suggests about terrorism and its future / Christopher Harmon; title: Civil-military relations and the future / Frank Hoffman.