Training for Atomic Warfare by Brad Hardy (Hardback Book)

University of Tennessee Press

In the early days of the Cold War, the United States Army underwent a fundamental shift in its strategic thinking. While World War II was won on a doctrinal paradigm of combined arms, the US Army of the 1950s believed that atomic weapons would change how international conflicts were won and lost. Training officers in atomic warfare was a challenge, since there was little real-world experience on which to draw. Initially resistant to atomic weapons, the Army evolved through school debates among traditionalists, tech-driven \""Buck Rogers\"" visionaries, and integrators who unified old and new methods.\n Facing classified data gaps, Army schools sparked cognitive shifts while the maneuver-fires inversion redefined warfare. By the early 1960s, with the Vietnam War centered in the minds of US\n\nTraining for Atomic Warfare\nUS Army Doctrine and Education in the Early Cold War, 1945-1963\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Ma;