Geoffrey Jensen is John Biggs '30 Cincinnati Chair in Military History in the Department of History, Virginia Military Institute, USA.

'...provides a thorough overview of the developments of military doctrine and thought in the inter-war period in Europe...' Diplomacy and Statecraft

• Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I Military Thought and Doctrine: British influence and the evolution of the Panzer arm: myth or reality, Azar Gat; German armour doctrine: correcting the myths, R.L. DiNardo; Beyond fire and movement: command, control and information in the German blitzkreig, Robert Citino; Mass, mobility, and the Red Army's road to operational art 1918-1936, Jacob W. Kipp; J.F.C. Fuller, Tukhachevsky and the Red Army, 1923-1941: the question of the reception of Fuller's military writings in the Soviet Union, Alaric Searle; 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it': French military doctrine between the world wars, Eugenia C. Kiesling. Part II Air Power: The Luftwaffe's army support doctrine, 1918-1941, James S. Corum; Trenchard and 'morale bombing': the evolution of Royal Air Force doctrine before World War II, Philip S. Meilinger; Fighter defence before fighter command: the rise of strategic air defence in Great Britain, 1917-1934, John Ferris. Part III The Soviet-Polish War: Two Views: The 'miracle of the Vistula': Soviet policy versus Red Army strategy, Thomas Fiddick; Lenin, Stalin and the failure of the Red Army in the Soviet-Polish war of 1920, Stephen Brown. Part IV Civil Wars and Insurgency: The Red Army and mass mobilization during the Russian civil war, 1918-1920, Orlando Figes; The clash of Spanish armies: contrasting ways of war in Spain, 1936-1939, Michael Alpert; Soviet tank operations in the Spanish civil war, Steven J. Zaloga; The Irish Republican Army and the development of guerilla warfare, 1916-21, Charles Townshend. Part V On the Eve of the Great Patriotic War: The Soviet Union: Mikhail Tukhachevsky and war-economic planning: reconsiderations on the pre-war Soviet military build-up, L. Samuelson; Tukhachevsky in Leningrad: military politics and exile, 1928-31, David R. Stone; Company choir of terror: the military council of the 1930s - the Red Army between the XVIIth and XVIIIth party congresses, Frank Schauf