The next War Studies Seminar at the Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham, is the annual John Terraine Lecture: Professor Gary Sheffield (University of Birmingham) ‘Douglas Haig, John Terraine, and the History of the First World War’ The event will be on 1 May 2012. The Seminar meets on TUESDAYS at 5.30 p.m. in [...]
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The John Terraine Lecture at the University of Birmingham
Posted in Events, First World War, Military History, War Studies, tagged British Army, Command, Field Marshal Earl Haig, First World War, Gary Sheffield, Historiography, John Terraine, Leadership, University of Birmingham on March 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Air Power Seminar at the University of Birmingham – Ross Mahoney
Posted in Air Power, Events, Leadership and Command, Military History, Second World War, War Studies, tagged Battle of Britain, Centre for War Studies, Command, Leadership, Ross Mahoney, Second World War, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, War Studies Seminar on December 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The next War Studies Seminar at the Centre for War Studies at the University of Birmingham is an Air Power Seminar and is being given by: Ross Mahoney (University of Birmingham) ‘Leadership Effectivness: Understanding a Key Metric of Operational Military History – The Case of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory‘ The event will be [...]
Fighting Power as the Arbiter of Leadership Effectiveness
Posted in Fighting Power, Leadership and Command, Military History, War Studies, tagged Combat Power, Command, Fighting Power, German Army, Gian Gentile, Leadership, Martin van Creveld, Military Effectiveness, Stephen Biddle on September 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
[Cross posted at Thoughts on Military History] In an era of fourth generation warfare where the achievement of strategic end-goals lay squarely at the feet of politicians, the application of fighting power as a militaries core warfighting capability is being increasingly questioned with a concentration on Counter Insurgency (COIN) and Peacekeeping Support Operations (PSO). For [...]
Military Genius: Is it still possible?
Posted in War Studies, tagged Carl von Clausewitz, Generalship, Leadership, Military History, War Studies, Wars and Conflicts on July 21, 2010 | 14 Comments »
I’ve been re-reading some Clausewitz lately in an effort to nail down a theoretical basis for a concept I’m currently working on, and I strolled across his chapter on military genius (pp.100-112 in H&P edition). This got me thinking, in this modern age of instant communications, images from the front line and the capacity for [...]
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