Understanding Land Warfare

by Christopher Tuck

Understanding Land Warfare provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The book is a thematic, debate-driven analysis of what makes land warfare unique; how it interacts with the other environments; the key concepts that shape how it is executed; the trade-offs associated with its prosecution; and the controversies that continue to surround its focus and development. Understanding Land Warfare contains several key This book will be essential reading for military personnel studying on cadet, intermediate and staff courses. In addition, it will also be of use to undergraduate and postgraduate students of military history, war studies and strategic studies.

Genres: Military Fiction, War

274 pages, Paperback

First published May 12, 2013

Reviews

[Barron · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent textbook primer on land warfare. Certainly worth reading if you are trying to orient yourself and get a handle on the subject--better than "well, I guess you could try reading Clausewitz" or "well there are some good histories of some battles you can read." Would an intro to surgery tell you to read some Aesclepius and here's a few stories about how a few doctors tried to cure a few famously sick people? Yet that is apparently the common approach to military studies.