A scientific way of war : antebellum military science, West Point, and the origins of American military thought /
While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln, NB :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Studies in war, society, and the military.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study of military science. Officers of the regular army and instructors at the military academy and their political superiors all believed strongly in the possibility of acquiring a perfect knowledge of war through the proper curriculum. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780803277182 0803277180 9780803277168 0803277164 |