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Stephen Biddle, a Professor at the US Army War College, has produced an important book on modern warfare. He shows how material forces, numbers and technology, only count if used in the modern system. Force deployment shapes the role of material forces. He analyses full data-sets of modern battles, proving that bigger is not always better. The increasing lethality of firepower means that since 1914 exposed mass movement is suicidal. Only the modern system of using combined arms, cover and concealment enables the attackers' forces to survive the defence's response. Biddle looks at three significant battles, firstly, the successful German attack of March 1918. For preponderance theorists, the Allies should have stopped this attack dead. The German/British force-to-force ratio was 1.5/1, among the least favourable of any major attack of the war. The British had a few more tanks, but the main weapons were still the infantry and guns of 1915-18, a defence-dominant technology. The British official history blamed the fog, as if there had been no fog until then. The Germans won an unprecedented breakthrough, advancing 40 miles across a 50-mile front. The Germans implemented the modern system tactically and to some extent operationally; the British didn't. This broke the great stalemate, not new technology, US intervention or exhaustion. Biddle's second example, Operation Goodwood in July 1944, was the failed Allied effort to break out of the Normandy beachhead. The British had more troops and weapons: 1,277 tanks, 4,500 aircraft and 118,000 troops against 319 tanks, several hundred aircraft and 29,000 troops --By William Podmore on February 21, 2005
This is an exceptional work of real empirical science. Steve Biddle has a hypothesis that "force employment" is a more important determinant of military success than either technology or preponderance of military forces. He subjects this hypothesis to a wide range of analytical and empirical tests, and the evidence in support of his argument is compelling. And the author has the foresight to raise many of the issues that occur to a skeptical reader, and to treat them with reasoned analysis and data. His prose is clear, and this is compelling reading even to one who is not an expert in this field --By Greg Davidson on November 24, 2004
Prof Terry Tucker, Senior Doctrine Developer, Saudi Arabian NG Modernization Program; The author presents a balanced, provocative and well presented case for how victory or defeat occurs in battle. This book is designed for both the tecnical numbers kind of person and also the less technical. The chapters can be read as a stand alone or you can also go through the entire book. Either way it has immense value. The thesis of this book is that force employment, or the doctrine and tactics by which forces are used in combat is centrally important. This book is great reading, is controversial in its presentation but clearly provides both empirical and quantitative analysis to support his position. THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ. --By Terry Tucker on November 12, 2005
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In War, do mass and material mater most? Will States with the largest, best equipped, information technology-rich militaries invariable win? The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policy makers is yes. But this is to overlook force employment, or the doctrine and tactics by which material is actually used. In a landmark reconeption of battle and war, this book provides a systematic account of how force employment interacts with material to produce real combat outcomes. Stephen Biddle argues that force employment is central to modern war, becoming increasingly important sice 1900 as the key to surviving ever more letha weaponry. Technological change produces opposite effects depending on how forces are employed; to focus only on material is thus to risk major error-with serious consequences for both policy and scholarship. About Author : Stephen Biddle is Associate Professor of National Security Studies at the U.S.Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. he has published extensively in defence policy and internatioanl relations, and he has held teaching and research positions in both academic political science and official defence policy analysis.
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- VerlagManas Publications
- Erscheinungsdatum2015
- ISBN 10 8170492300
- ISBN 13 9788170492306
- EinbandTapa dura
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten352
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