Command in War

出版者:Harvard University Press

作者:Martin van Creveld

页数:352

出版时间:1987-01-01

价格:USD 28.50

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780674144415

图书标签:军事史军事战争史军事指挥历史领导力政治学Creveld

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy. In vivid descriptions of key battles and campaigns--among others, Napoleon at Jena, Moltke's Koniggratz campaign, the Arab-Israeli war of 1973, and the Americans in Vietnam--van Creveld focuses on the means of command and shows how those means worked in practice. He finds that technological advances such as the railroad, breech-loading rifles, the telegraph and later the radio, tanks, and helicopters all brought commanders not only new tactical possibilities but also new limitations. Although vast changes have occurred in military thinking and technology, the one constant has been an endless search for certainty--certainty about the state and intentions of the enemy's forces; certainty about the manifold factors that together constitute the environment in which war is fought, from the weather and terrain to radioactivity and the presence of chemical warfare agents; and certainty about the state, intentions, and activities of one's own forces. The book concludes that progress in command has usually been achieved less by employing more advanced technologies than by finding ways to transcend the limitations of existing ones.

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Oh those college days.

Oh those college days.

Oh those college days.

其實大家都想太多了，這本書講的其實是，只要戰爭還是人殺人，那軍事學就永遠是人與人之間的關係，是神學而不是科學。簡而言之，你只有有馬太福音裡請治僕人的百夫長那般的信才能打贏

Oh those college days.