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Command or Control?: Command, Training and Tactics in the British and German Armies, 1888-1918 Hardcover - 1996
by Martin Samuels
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'Is the British Army 50 years out of date as a fighting force?" asked Captain Graeme C. Wynne in 1957, arguing that the army was indeed out of date, owing to a failure to develop its tactical ideas beyond the sterile practices employed on the Somme and the retention of the concept that 'l'artillerie conquiert, l'infanterie occupe'.
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Statistical analysis in the 1970s by Colonel Trevor Dupuy of battles in the First World War demonstrated that the German Army enjoyed a consistent 20 per cent superiority in combat effectiveness over the British Army during that war, a superiority that had been asserted in the 1930s by Captain Graeme Wynne. In attempting to explain that advantage, this book follows the theory that such combat superiority can be understood best by means of a comparative study of the armies concerned, proposing that the German Army's superiority was due as much to poor performance by the British Army as to its own high performance. The book also suggests that the key difference between the two armies at this time was one of philosophy. The German Army saw combat as inherently chaotic: to achieve high combat effectiveness it was necessary to decentralise command, ensure a high standard of individual combat skill and adopt flexible tactical systems. The British Army, however, believed combat to be inherently structured: combat effectiveness was deemed to lie in the maintenance of order and symmetry, through centralised decision-making, training focused on developing unthinking obedience and the use of rigid tactics. An examination of the General Staff systems, the development of minor tactics and the evolution of defensive doctrines in both armies tests these hypotheses, while case studies of the battles of Thiepval and St Quentin reveal that both forces contained elements that supported the contrary philosophy to the majority. In the German Army, there was continual rear-guard action against flexibility, with the General Staff itself becoming increasingly narrow in outlook. In the British Army, severalattempts were made to adopt German practices, but misunderstanding and opposition distorted these, as when the system of directive control itself was converted into that of umpiring.
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- Title Command or Control?: Command, Training and Tactics in the British and German Armies, 1888-1918
- Author Martin Samuels
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition annotated editio
- Pages 340
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, London
- Date 1996-02-29
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780714645704 / 0714645702
- Weight 1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.34 x 1.09 in (23.57 x 16.10 x 2.77 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Germany - Drill and tactics, Military doctrine - Great Britain - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95007053
- Dewey Decimal Code 355.033
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