The Science of War Back to First Principles

• Main Author: Brian Holden-Reid
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 1993; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: The Operational Level of War
• Subjects: Defenses; Europe; History of Science & Technology; International History; Military & Naval History; MILITARYnetBASE; World; Decision Action Cycle; Khe Sanh; MLRS; Indirect Approach; NATO Force Structure; NATO; Extended Deterrence; Surveillance Target Attack Radar System; Targetacquisition System; UK Division; MBE; UN; NATO’s History; NATO Alliance; Cig; UK Force; Army; British Military Doctrine; Doctrinal Surprise; Fourteenth Army; Tempo System; Allied Tactical Air Force; Ground Forces; Targetacquisition Systems; NATO Region

Forty years of confrontation in Europe have produced a complex set of conditioned reflexes in western military thinking. With the ending of the Warsaw pact, planning and analysis specialists have had to look again at the basic principles of war: there is no sure ground any more. The analysis of thre...