Missed Signals on the Western Front

How the Slow Adoption of Wireless Restricted British Strategy and Operations in World War I

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

Though wireless communication was in early development 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-08-31
Mått:152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:236
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786449378

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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.

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“An essential read”—The NYMAS Review.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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