01925nam a2200217Ia 4500 CTU_174041 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 19.60 355.02 D997 The dynamics of military revolution, 1300-2050 edited by MacGregor Knox, Williamson Murray Cambridge, UK,New York Cambridge University Press 2001 The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: 'military revolutions', which are driven by vast social and political changes; and 'revolutions in military affairs', which military institutions have directed, although usually with great difficulty and ambiguous results. By providing both a conceptual framework and a historical context for thinking about revolutionary changes in military affairs, the work establishes a baseline for understanding the patterns of change, innovation, and adaptation that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century - beginning with Edward III's revolutionary changes in medieval warfare, through the development of modern Western military institutions in seventeenth-century France, to the cataclysmic changes of the First World War and the German Blitzkrieg victories of 1940. This history provides a guide for thinking about military revolutions in the coming century, which are as inevitable as they are difficult to predict. Strategy,Military art and science,Revolutions,Chiến lược,Khoa học và quân sự,Cuộc cách mạng History,History,History,Lịch sử,Lịch sử,Lịch sử Europe,Châu Âu Năm Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ