Under the Shadow of Napoleon : French Influence on the American Way of Warfare from Independence to the Eve of World War II / Michael Bonura.
2012
UA23 .B714 2016
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Title
Under the Shadow of Napoleon : French Influence on the American Way of Warfare from Independence to the Eve of World War II / Michael Bonura.
Author
Bonura, Michael, author.
ISBN
9780814723173
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814709429.001.0001 doi
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UA23 .B714 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
355.477309034
Summary
The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the War of 1812, Winfield Scott ensured that America adopted a series of ideas formed in the crucible of the Wars of the French Revolution and epitomized by Napoleon. Reflecting American cultural changes, these French ideas dominated American warfare on the battlefields of the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I. America remained committed to these ideas until cultural pressures and the successes of German Blitzkrieg from 1939 - 1940 led George C. Marshall to orchestrate the adoption of a different understanding of warfare. Michael A. Bonura examines concrete battlefield tactics, army regulations, and theoretical works on war as they were presented in American army education manuals, professional journals, and the popular press, to demonstrate that as a cultural construction, warfare and ways of warfare can be transnational and influence other nations.
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Warfare and Culture ; ; 3
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A French Way of Warfare
2. Bringing French Warfare to America, 1814-1848
3. American Adaptation of French Warfare, 1848-1865
4. German Professionalism and American Warfare, 1865-1899
5. American Warfare in the Progressive Era, 1899-1918
6. The End of French Influence on American Warfare, 1918-1941
Conclusion
Notes
Notes
About the Author
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A French Way of Warfare
2. Bringing French Warfare to America, 1814-1848
3. American Adaptation of French Warfare, 1848-1865
4. German Professionalism and American Warfare, 1865-1899
5. American Warfare in the Progressive Era, 1899-1918
6. The End of French Influence on American Warfare, 1918-1941
Conclusion
Notes
Notes
About the Author