Jablonsky Churchill and Hitler

Essays on the Political-Military Direction of Total War
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-135-20258-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 346 Seiten

This collection of essays examines the development of Churchill and Hitler as strategic leaders and analyses in particular the impact of their formative years on their leadership styles, operational codes', views on civilmilitary relations, and approaches to the conduct of war at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Ultimately, victory depended on the calculated use of all the means of national power military, political, psychological and economic to achieve the national end. These essays demonstrate it was Churchill who best understood that calculation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jablonsky, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - the Clausewitzian trinity; Churchll - the making of a grand strategist; the paradox of duality - Adolf Hitler and the concept of military surprise; Churchill - the Victorian man of action; strategic reality is not enough - hitler and the concept of crazy states; landmarks in defence literature - "The World Crisis", "The Unknown War", "The Aftermath", "Marlborough, his Life and Times"; Roehm and Hitler - the continuity of political-military discord.