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Book SynopsisCase studies of each branch of the military reveal success and failure in the past and present, with a goal of improving military education in the future.
Underlying themes clearly reveal the need for those questioning military education to utilize history as the preferred method and model of imperial analysis.
Table of ContentsIntroduction The Conundrum of Military Education in Historical Perspective by John B. Hattendorf Educating Bellona: Carl von Clausewitz and Military Education by T.G. Ottee "No Officer Rather than a Bad Officer:" Officer Selection and Education in the Prussion/German Army, 1715-1945 by Dennis E. Showalter Sylvanus Thayer and the Ethical Instruction of Nineteenth-Century Military Officers in the United States by Lori Bogle History as Process and Record: The Royal Navy and Officer Education by Andrew Lambert Officer Education and Training in the British Regular Army, 1919-1939 by David French To Make the Men for the Next Crisis: The USAF Air War College and the Education of Senior Military Leaders, 1945-1993 by Mark R. Grandstaff The War Colleges and Joint Education in the United States by Thomas A. Keany The Labours of Athena and the Muses: Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Canadian Military Education by Ronald G. Haycock European Military Education Today by Peter Foot Bibliography Index
