By MacGregor Knox & Williamson Murray

The Dynamics of Military Revolution bridges a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs. It suggests that two very different phenomena have been at work over the past centuries: "military revolutions," which are driven by vast social and political changes, and "revolutions in military affairs," which military institutions have directed, although usually with great difficulty and ambiguous results. MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray provide a conceptual framework and historical context for understanding the patterns of change, innovation, and adaptation that have marked war in the Western world since the fourteenth century--beginning with Edward III's revolution in medieval warfare, through the development of modern military institutions in seventeenth-century France, to the military impact of mass politics in the French Revolution, the cataclysmic military-industrial struggle of 1914-1918, and the German Blitzkrieg victories of 1940.

Published Date: 27/08/2001 Format: HardBack ISBN: 0-521-80079-x Publisher: Cambridge University Press Rating: Retail price: US Dollar $ 32.99 (Rs. 2,360.10) Our price: Rs. 2,895.00 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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