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Summary:

"The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the War of 1812, Winfield Scott ensured that America adopted a series of ideas formed in the crucible of the Wars of the French Revolution and epitomized by Napoleon. Reflecting American cultural changes, these French ideas dominated American warfare on the battlefields of the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I. America remained committed to these ideas until cultural pressures and the successes of German Blitzkrieg from 1939 - 1940 led George C. Marshall to orchestrate the adoption of a different understanding of warfare. Michael A. Bonura examines concrete battlefield tactics, army regulations, and theoretical works on war as they were presented in American army education manuals, professional journals, and the popular press, to demonstrate that as a cultural construction, warfare and ways of warfare can be transnational and influence other nations."--Project Muse.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. French Way of Warfare
• 2. Bringing French Warfare to America, 1814-1848
• 3. American Adaptation of French Warfare, 1848-1865
• 4. German Professionalism and American Warfare, 1865-1899
• 5. American Warfare in the Progressive Era, 1899-1918
• 6. End of French Influence on American Warfare, 1918-1941.

Author/Creator:

Bonura, Michael A., 1974- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Under the shadow of Napoleon: French influence on the American way of warfare from the War of 1812 to the outbreak of WWII [by Bonura, M.A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Under the shadow of Napoleon [by Bonura, M.A.] (New York : New York University Press, ©2012 — ISBN 9780814709429; LCCN 2011047738)

Related Series:

Warfare and culture series

Subjects:

Military art and science — United States — History — 19th century

Military art and science — United States — History — 20th century

Military art and science — France — History — 18th century

United States — History, Military — 19th century

United States — History, Military — 20th century

France — History — Revolution, 1789-1799 — Influence

Revolution (France : 1789-1799)

1700-1999

Military art and science

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

History, Military

United States

France

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

UA23 .B714 2012eb

ISBNs:

9780814723173 (electronic bk.)
0814723179 (electronic bk.)
9780814709436 (electronic bk.)
0814709435 (electronic bk.)
9780814709429 [Invalid]
0814709427 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2011047738 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

793357521

Other Control Numbers:

450683 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp7627702