Military Heretics
by McKercher, B. J. C.; Ion, A. HamishFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1994-01-01
Publisher(s): Praeger Pub Text
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Summary
This collection uses a series of case studies to assess the impact of heretical military leaders who developed policy and strategy during war and peace in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Military Heretics: The Unorthodox in Policy and Strategy by B.J.C. McKercher and A. Hamish Ion | |
| Making and Breaking the Rules: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Heresy in Modern War by John Gooch | |
| New Wars and Old: Felix Calleja and the Independence War of Mexico, 1810-1816 by Christon I. Archer | |
| From Genius to Intellect: Unorthodox Union Officers in the American Civil War by Carol Reardon | |
| Alfred von Tirpitz's Heretical Orthodoxy by Ivo Lambi | |
| The Youth of General A.A. Brusilov: The Making of an Unconventional, Conventional Professional by David R. Jones | |
| Hugh Trenchard: Making the Unorthodox Orthodox by Scot Robertson | |
| Admiral Kato Kanji: Heretic, Hero, or the Unorthodox in Pursuit of an Orthodox Naval Policy by Ian Gow | |
| Moshe Dayan: Above the Rules by Michael I. Handel | |
| The Mark of the Heretic by John A. English | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index |
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