Military Effectiveness

by Edited by Allan R. Millett , Williamson Murray

• ISBN13: 9780521425919
• ISBN10: 0521425913
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This three-volume study examines the questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Italy in the period from 1914 to 1945. Leading military historians deal with the different national approaches to war and military power at the tactical, operational, strategic, and political levels. They form the basis for a fundamental re-examination of how military organizations have performed in the first half of the twentieth century. Volume 3 covers World War II. Volumes 1 and 2 address address World War I and the interwar period, respectively. Now in a new edition, with a new introduction by the editors, these classic volumes will remain invaluable for military historians and social scientists in their examination of national security and military issues. They will also be essential reading for future military leaders at Staff and War Colleges.

Table of Contents

Introduction: military effectiveness twenty years after

The effectiveness of the Japanese military establishment in the Second World War

The United States armed forces in the Second World War

British military effectiveness in the Second World War

The Italian armed forces, 1940-3

The dynamics of volksgemeinschaft: the effectiveness of the German military establishment in the Second World War

Bitter victory: French military effectiveness during the Second World War

The Soviet armed forces in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-5

Military effectiveness in the Second World War

Challenge and response at the operational and tactical levels, 1914-45 Lieutenant General

The political and strategic dimensions of military effectiveness

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