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Red Commanders

Author : Roger R. Reese
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Red Commanders written by Roger R. Reese and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest and most feared military forces in the world, the Red Army was a key player in advancing the cause of Soviet socialism. Rising out of revolutionary-era citizen militias, it aspired to the greatness needed to confront its Cold War adversaries but was woefully unprepared to change with the times. In this first comprehensive study of the Soviet officer corps, Roger Reese traces the history of the Red Army from Civil War triumph through near-decimation in World War II and demoralizing quagmire in Afghanistan to the close scrutiny it came under during Gorbachev's reform era. Reese takes readers inside the Red Army to reconstruct the social and institutional dynamics that shaped its leadership and effectiveness over seventy-three years. He depicts the lives of these officers by revealing their class origins, life experiences, party loyalty, and attitudes toward professionalism. He tells how these men were shaped by Russian culture and Soviet politics—and how the Communist Party dominated every aspect of their careers but never allowed them the autonomy they needed to cultivate a high level of military effectiveness. Despite its struggle to develop and maintain professionalism, the officer corps was often hampered by factors inextricably intertwined with the Soviet state: Marxist theory, revolutionary ideology, friction between party and non-party members, and the influence of the army's political administration organs. Reese shows that by rejecting the Western bourgeois model of military professionalism the state greatly limited its officer corps' ability to develop a more effective military. While a sense of group identity emerged among officers after World War II, it quickly lost relevance in the face of postwar challenges, especially the war in Afghanistan, which underscored fatal flaws in command leadership. Red Commanders offers new insight into the workings of a military giant and also restores Leon Trotsky to his rightful place in Soviet military history by featuring his ideas on building a new army from the ground up. It is an important look behind the scenes at a military establishment that continues to face leadership challenges in Russia today.

Commanders Digest

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Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Commanders Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hitler's Commanders

Author : James Lucas
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848327366
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Commanders written by James Lucas and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As absolute as Hitler's control over the German war machine was, it depended on the ability, judgment and unquestioning loyalty of the senior officers charged with putting his ideas, however difficult, into effect. Top military historian James Lucas examines the stories of fourteen of these men: all of different rank, from varied backgrounds, and highly awarded, they exemplify German military prowess at its most dangerous. Among his subjects are Eduard Dietl, the commander of German forces in Norway and Eastern Europe; Werner Kampf, one of the most successful Panzer commanders of the war; and Kurt Meyer, commander of the Hitler Youth Division and one of Germany's youngest general officers. The author, one of the leading experts on all aspects of German military conduct of the Second World War, offers the reader a rare look into the nature of the German Army _ a curious mix of individual strength, petty officialdom and pragmatic action.

The Commanders

Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806160926
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Commanders written by Robert M. Utley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post–Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven military leaders who served as major generals for the Union in the Civil War, then as brigadier generals in command of the U.S. Army’s western departments. By examining both periods in their careers, Utley makes a unique contribution in delineating these commanders’ strengths and weaknesses. While some of the book’s subjects—notably Generals George Crook and Nelson A. Miles—are well known, most are no longer widely remembered. Yet their actions were critical in the expansion of federal control in the West. The commanders effected the final subjugation of American Indian tribal groups, exercising direct oversight of troops in the field as they fought the wars that would bring Indians under military and government control. After introducing readers to postwar army doctrine, organization, and administration, Utley takes each general in turn, describing his background, personality, eccentricities, and command style and presenting the rudiments of the campaigns he prosecuted. Crook embodied the ideal field general, personally leading his troops in their operations, though with varying success. Christopher C. Augur and John Pope, in contrast, preferred to command from their desks in department headquarters, an approach that led both of them to victory on the battlefield. And Miles, while perhaps the frontier army’s most detestable officer, was also its most successful in the field. Rounding out the book with an objective comparison of all eight generals’ performance records, Utley offers keen insights into their influence on the U.S. military as an institution and on the development of the American West.

Soviet Russia Pictorial

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Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Soviet Russia Pictorial written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Commanders Call

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Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commanders Call written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority

Author : Timothy J. Colton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674145351
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority written by Timothy J. Colton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For six decade the Soviet system has been immune to military rebellion and takeover, which often characterizes modernizing countries. How can we explain the stability of Soviet military politics, asks Timothy Colton in his compelling interpretation of civil-military relations in the Soviet Union. Hitherto most western scholars have posited a basic dichotomy of interests between the Soviet army and the Communist party. They view the two institutions as conflictprone, with civilian supremacy depending primarily upon the party's control of officers through its organs within the military establishment. Colton challenges this thesis and argues that the military party organs have come to possess few of the attributes of an effective controlling device, and that the commissars and their heirs have operated as allies rather than adversaries of the military commanders. In explaining the extraordinary stability in army-party relations in terms of overlapping interests rather than controlling mechanisms, Colton offers a major case study and a new model to students of comparative military politics.

Notes of a Red Guard

Author : Eduard Martynovich Dune
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062773
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Notes of a Red Guard written by Eduard Martynovich Dune and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling never-before-published account takes the reader into Red Guard and Red Army units, Moscow factories, workers' homes, and to the unfamiliar world of feudal Dagestan. Worker-revolutionary Eduard Dune was seventeen when the Russian revolution began. He joined the Bolshevik party and fought with the Moscow Red Guard during the October revolution. Notes of a Red Guard is his candid account of what happened through 1921. This uncensored account offers a rare glimpse of revolutionary Russia from the perspective of an educated, skilled worker who became a rank-and-file participant.

Garrison Commanders Directory

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Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Garrison Commanders Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nineteenth Century

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Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Nineteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Twentieth Century

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Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Twentieth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nineteenth Century and After

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Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nineteenth Century and After

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Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Norman Commanders

Author : Paul Hill
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783462280
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book The Norman Commanders written by Paul Hill and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Guiscard, William the Conqueror, Roger I of Sicily and Bohemond Prince of Antioch are just four of the exceptional Norman commanders who not only led their armies to victory in battle but also, through military force, created their own kingdoms in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Their single-minded and aggressive leadership, and the organization, discipline and fighting qualities of their armies, marked them out from their Viking forebears and from many of the armed forces that stood against them. Their brilliant careers, and those of Robert Curthose, William Rufus, Richard I of Capua and Henry I of England, are the subject of Paul Hill's latest study of medieval warfare.?In a narrative packed with detail and insight, and with a wide-ranging understanding of the fighting methods and military ethos of the period, he traces the course of their conquests, focusing on them as individual commanders and on their achievements on the battlefield. The military context of their campaigns, and the conditions of warfare in France and England, in southern Italy and Sicily, and in the Near East, are vividly described, as are their decisive operations and sieges among them Hastings, Brémule, Tinchebrai, Civitate, Misilmeri, Dyrrhachium and the Siege of Antioch.?There is no doubt that the Normans' success in war depended upon the leadership qualities and military capabilities of the commanders as well as the special strengths of the armies they led. Paul Hill's accessible and authoritative account offers a fascinating portrait of these masters of warfare.

Our World

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Our World written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our World

Author : Herbert Sherman Houston
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Our World written by Herbert Sherman Houston and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Royal Engineers Journal

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Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Engineers Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: