Jobie Turner Feeding Victory: Innovative Military Logistics from Lake George to Khe Sanh 9780700629145

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Автор: Jobie Turner
Название: Feeding Victory: Innovative Military Logistics from Lake George to Khe Sanh
ISBN: 9780700629145
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

Послевоенная история 20 века: с 1945 по 2000

Военная история

Вторая мировая война

Питание и общество

Теория ведения военных действий и военная наука

Оборона: стратегия, планирование и исследования

Сражения и кампании

ISBN-10: 0700629149
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 400
Вес: 0.74 кг.
Дата издания: 28.02.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 236 x 163 x 36
Ключевые слова: Food & society,Military history,Second World War,Vietnam War,Defence strategy, planning & research,Theory of warfare & military science, HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War,HISTORY / Military / World War II,HISTORY / Military / General
Подзаголовок: Innovative military logistics from lake george to khe sanh
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: An army, Lewis Mumford once observed, is a body of pure consumers and it is logistics that feeds this bodys insatiable appetite for men and materiel. Successful logistics - the transportation of supplies and combatants to battle - cannot guarantee victory, but poor logistics portends defeat. In Feeding Victory, Jobie Turner asks how technical innovation has affected this connection over time and whether advances in technology, from the railroad and the airplane to the nuclear weapon and the computer, have altered both the critical relationship between logistics and warfare and, ultimately, geopolitical dynamics.Covering a span of three hundred years, Feeding Victory focuses on five distinct periods of technological change, from the preindustrial era to the information age. For each era Turner presents a case study: the campaign for Lake George from 1755 to 1759, the Western Front in 1917, the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942, the Battle of Stalingrad from 1942 to 1943, and the Battle of Khe Sanh in 1968. In each of these cases the logistics of the belligerents were at their limit because of geography or the vast material needs of war. With such limits, the case studies both give a clear accounting of the logistics of the period, particularly with respect to the mode of transportation - whether air, land, or sea - and reveal the inflection points between success and failure.What are the continuities between eras, Turner asks, and what can these campaigns tell us about the relationship of technology to logistics and logistics to geopolitics? In doing so, Turner discovers just how critical the biological needs of the soldiers on the battlefield prove to be; in fact, they overwhelm firepower in their importance, even in the modern era. His work shows how logistics aptly represents technological shifts from the enlightenment to the dawn of the twenty-first century and how, in our time, ideas have come to trump the material forces of war.
Дополнительное описание: Military history|Theory of warfare and military science|Military and defence strategy|Cultural studies: food and society|Second World War|Modern warfare|Military history: post-WW2 conflicts

Feeding Victory: Innovative Military Logistics from Lake George to Khe Sanh, Jobie Turner