Ian C Hope: 1 book
A Scientific Way of War
Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
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...
