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Command in War by Martin Van Creveld; American Council of Learned Societies is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Command in War about?

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communications methods and technologies, weaponry, and logistics. And it analyzes the relationship between these problems and military strategy. In vivid descriptions of key battles and campaigns—among others, Napoleon at Jena, Moltke’s Königgrätz campaign, the Arab–Israeli war of 1973, and the Americans in Vietnam—Martin van Creveld focuses on the means of command and shows how those means worked in practice. He finds that technological advances such as the railroad, breech-loading rifles, the telegraph and later the radio, tanks, and helicopters all brought commanders not only new tactical possibilities but also new limitations. Although vast changes have occurred in military thinking and technology, the one constant has been an endless search for certainty—certainty about the state and intentions of the enemy’s fo

Who reads Command in War?

Author

Martin Van Creveld; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674144415

Category

history

Subjects

Military, Fiction, Science

Rating

4.06 / 5 (185 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14