Elite Military Formations in War and Peace

by A. Hamish Ion, Roch Legault, Keith Neilson

Overview

From Thermopylae to Belfast, elite military formations have been deployed against conventional or irregular forces. This study offers a superb analysis of elites in military history. A collection of brilliant studies by distinguished scholars, it illuminates, through a combination of overview and case study, a historical subject that has profound implications for the development of specialized forces in the post-Cold War Era. The study uses a comparative approach which investigates the topic over time and across culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275946401
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/30/1996
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

A. HAMISH ION is Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is a specialist in modern Japanese history. His most recent monograph is The Cross and the Rising Sun: The British Protestant Missionary Movement in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, 1865-1945 (1993). He has recently edited with B.J.C. McKercher, Military Heretics: The Unorthodox in Policy and Strategy (Praeger, 1994).

KEITH NEILSON is Professor of History and Head of the History Department at the Royal Military College of Canada. He has written Strategy and Supply: Anglo-Russian Relations 1914-1917. He is the editor with B.J.C. McKercher of Go Spy the Land: Military Intelligence in History (Praeger, 1992). Neilson has published a wide range of articles on British diplomatic and military history.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Elites in Military History by Martin Kitchen
Elite Forces in the Ancient World by Arther Ferrill
Daimyo in the Sengoku Period, 1467-1590 by Shuzo Uyenaka
The Royalist Armies in the English Civil War, 1642-1646 by Ian Roy
Prussian Guards in the 18th Century by Hans W. Koch
The French Foreign Legion: The Mystique of Elitism by Douglas Porch
German Army Elites in World Wars I and II by Dennis E. Showalter
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Investigates the phenomenon of military elites across time and cultures in light of their possible resurgence to fight in today's increasing low-intensity conflicts. After an overview from ancient Assyria to the NATO's Rapid Reaction Corps, covers ancient Greece and Rome, the Sengoku period in Japan, the English Civil War, the 18th-century Prussian Guards, the French Foreign Legion, and German elites in the world wars. Distributed in the US by Greenwood. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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