Title: A Scientific Way of War
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.
Subjects: United states military academy, United states, army, officers, Military art and science, history, Military education, United States. Army, Officers, United States, Training of, Military art and science, History, Armed Forces