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Military Innovation in the Interwar Period

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ISBN-10: 0521637600

ISBN-13: 9780521637602

Edition: 1998

Authors: Allan R. Millett, Williamson R. Murray, Richard R. Muller, Geoffrey Till, Holger H. Herwig

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The comparative essays that comprise this book investigate how and why innovation occurred or did not occur during the 1920s and 1930s, and explain much of the strategic and operative performance of the Axis powers and Allies in World War II.
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List price: $60.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/13/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 444
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.606

Williamson Murray is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analysis, Washington, D.C.

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Introduction
Armored warfare: the British, French, and German experiences
Assault from the sea: the development of amphibious warfare between the Wars, the American, British, and Japanese experiences
Strategic bombing: the British, American and German experiences
Close air support: the German, British and American experiences, 1918-1941
Adopting the aircraft carrier: the British, American and Japanese case studies
Innovation ignored: the submarine problem, Germany, Britain and the United States, 1919-1939
From radio to radar: interwar military adaptation to technological change in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Innovation: past and future
Patterns of military innovation in the interwar period
Military innovation in peacetime