The latest edition of the Journal of Military History has been published. It includes the annual George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History. This appears to be a contentious piece, and if the abstract is anything to go by I do not think I agree with Bacevich’s interpretation but I shall have to wait until [...]
Posts Tagged ‘American Civil War’
TOC – Journal of Military History, Vol. 76, No. 2
Posted in Journals, Military History, War Studies, tagged American Civil War, Andrew Bacevich, Franco-Austrian War, Journal of Military History, Red Army, United States Army, United States Military Academy, West Point, World War II on April 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
US Civil War to First World War: Learning the Lessons – Part 2
Posted in 19th Century, American Civil War, First World War, Military History, War Studies, tagged American Civil War, Bob Bushaway, British Army, First World War, Spencer Jones, University of Birmingham, US Civil War, War Studies on March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the second part of the recent Day School at the Centre for War Studies that examined the links between the American Civil War and the First World War. ‘A Veritable Rain of Bullets’: Firepower in the American Civil War and the First World War (Dr Spencer Jones, University of Birmingham) Spencer Jones delivered [...]
US Civil War to First World War: Learning the Lessons – Part 1
Posted in 19th Century, American Civil War, First World War, Military History, War Studies, tagged American Civil War, Bob Bushaway, First World War, George B. McClellan, Nick Beeching, University of Birmingham on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What follows is a critique of a couple of the lectures at the recent Day School at the Centre for War Studies that examined the links between the American Civil War and the First World War. ‘Two Worcesters, Two Wars: Contrasting Approaches to Recruitment & Mobilisation in the American Civil War and the Great War’ [...]
Centre for War Studies Spring Day School – US Civil War to First World War Learning the Lessons
Posted in 19th Century, American Civil War, Events, First World War, Military History, War Studies, tagged American Civil War, Bob Bushaway, Day School, University of Birmingham, War Studies, World War I on February 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
War Studies Public Programm The Spring Day School Saturday, 3 March 2012 US Civil War to First World War: Learning the Lessons It is axiomatic in American historiography that the US civil war was the first modern war and that Europe failed to learn the lessons of industrialised conflict and firepower. There are clear parallels [...]
TOC – Journal of Military History, Vol. 75, No. 2
Posted in Journals, Military History, War Studies, tagged American Civil War, Carl von Clausewitz, German Army, German Resistance, Journal of Military History, Journals, Royal Navy, Table of Contents on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The latest edition of the Journal of Military History has just been published. Some interesting articles this time around. Hew Strachan, ‘Clausewitz and the First World War‘ English-language authors have blamed Clausewitz twice over for his part in the First World War. Liddell Hart attributed to him a doctrine of “absolute war,” embraced by European [...]
The John Terraine Lecture at the University of Birmingham
Posted in 19th Century, American Civil War, Events, Military History, War Studies, tagged American Civil War, Attrition Warfare, Brian Holden Reid, John Terraine, King's College London, University of Birmingham on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This years John Terraine Lecture at the University of Birmingham’s War Studies Seminar will be delivered by Professor Brian Holden Reid of the War Studies Department, King’s College London. His talk is entitled: The American Civil War and Attrition This event will take place on Tuesday 10 May 2011 at 5:30 pm, Lecture Room 3, [...]
New Research in Military History
Posted in Conferences, Events, Military History, Research, War Studies, tagged Academia, American Civil War, British Army, English Civil War, Events, War Studies, Wars and Conflicts, World War I, World War II on October 17, 2010 | 5 Comments »
[Cross posted at Thoughts on Military History] Conference for Postgraduate and Early-career Historians University of Sussex, Friday 19th November 2010 This conference, a collaboration between the British Commission for Military History, the Centre for War, Representation and Society, University of Sussex and the History of Warfare Research Group, Department of War Studies, King’s College London, [...]
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