Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940
- ISBN-10
- 0700611762
- ISBN-13
- 9780700611768
- Category
- History / Military / General
- Pages
- 372
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Author
- Robert Michael Citino
Description
Since the earliest days of warfare, military operations have followed a predictable formula: after a decisive battle, an army must pursue the enemy and destroy its organization in order to achieve a victorious campaign. But by the mid-19th century, the emergence of massive armies and advanced weaponry - and the concomitant decline in the effectiveness of cavalry - had diminished the practicality of pursuit, producing campaigns that bogged down short of decisive victory. Great battles had become curiously indecisive, decisive campaigns virtually impossible.
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