“An essential read”—<i>The NYMAS Review</i>.

Though the medium of wireless communication was in relative infancy during World War I, the technology could have made a profound impact on tactical operations and on the entire strategic conduct of the war. Providing details on how and why the technology did not fulfill its promise as a great military tool until years later, the book points primarily to the British Army's institutional bias against wireless communication as the technology's downfall, reinforced by the crude, unreliable wireless sets with which the army began the war. It also demonstrates how improved wireless communications between infantry, command, artillery and air observation could have improved the flexibility, accuracy and effectiveness of the British military strategy in the German Spring Offensive, the Hundred Days Counteroffensive and the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, and Cambrai.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Preface      Introduction      1. Military Wireless Before the War      2. Operational Signals—Pre-war and Early Mobile Warfare      3. Operational Signals—Static Warfare in 1915      4. 1915—The RFC Invents Wireless Telephony      5. Operational Signals on the Somme      6. A Counterfactual—The Somme with Wireless Telephony      7. Operational Signals in 1917      8. A Counterfactual—Passchendaele and Cambrai with Wireless Telephony      9. Operational Signals in 1918      10. A Counterfactual—The German Spring Offensive and Hundred Days with Wireless Telephony      11. Command, Control and Communications      12. Intercept, Encryption and Jamming      13. An Assessment of Wireless as It Was Actually Employed      Conclusion      Appendix A: Wireless Technology      Appendix B: Signal Service Units, 1914      Appendix C: Signals Service Units Later in the War      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index     
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“An essential read”—The NYMAS Review.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780786449378
Publisert
2010-08-30
Utgiver
Vendor
McFarland & Co Inc
Vekt
330 gr
Høyde
226 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
236

Biographical note

The late Mike Bullock was a retired bank director. He lived in Warwickshire, England. Laurence A. Lyons, an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at the University of West Florida and the University of South Alabama, lives in Foley, Alabama.