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- catalog abstract ""The development of field armies has involved much more sophistication than generally supposed. In both practice and theory, army operations have been as knowledge-based and intellectually rigorous as any academic discipline, ensuring them an enduring place as a practical means of applying massive force. Fortunately, the NATO attempt to replace conventional armies with nuclear technology was never tested in a real war. But English suggests that the likelihood of deterrence continuing in war, because of its transmutability, also offers hope that it can be controlled in the future, as it was in the past, by social forces. This book offers a longer, more realistic view of war than that normally embraced by technocrats in search of better weapons and peacemakers in search of utopia."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10169107.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""The development of field armies has involved much more sophistication than generally supposed. In both practice and theory, army operations have been as knowledge-based and intellectually rigorous as any academic discipline, ensuring them an enduring place as a practical means of applying massive force. Fortunately, the NATO attempt to replace conventional armies with nuclear technology was never tested in a real war. But English suggests that the likelihood of deterrence continuing in war, because of its transmutability, also offers hope that it can be controlled in the future, as it was in the past, by social forces. This book offers a longer, more realistic view of war than that normally embraced by technocrats in search of better weapons and peacemakers in search of utopia."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 220 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Marching through chaos.".
- catalog identifier "0275946576 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Marching through chaos.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Westport, CT : Praeger,".
- catalog relation "Marching through chaos.".
- catalog subject "355.02 20".
- catalog subject "Armies History.".
- catalog subject "UA15 .E57 1997".
- catalog title "Marching through chaos : the descent of armies in theory and practice / John A. English.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".