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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Main Author: Hope, Ian C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, 2015
Series:Studies in war, society, and the military.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central