这本教科书提供了与现代陆战相关的词汇、概念、问题和辩论的全面基础。第二版已经更新和修订，包括关于非西方视角和混合战争的新章节。
本书以一系列案例研究为基础，涵盖了从第一次世界大战到叙利亚、乌克兰和纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫的当代冲突，探讨了土地领域的独特之处，以及这如何影响了在其上开展军事行动的理论和实践。它还研究了其行为范围内的陆战，包括常规竞选、平叛、和平支持和稳定行动。
确定和分析的关键主题和辩论包括
•变化与连续性之间的紧张关系；
•技术在陆战中的作用；
•文化和背景的相关性；
•将理论转化为有效军事实践的困难；
•深入讨论具有直接当代意义的问题，包括混合战争、新兴军事技术以及美国、俄罗斯和中国陆军的军事改革进程。
这本书将是军事实践者和陆战、军事史、战争研究和战略研究的学生的必备读物。
Understanding Land Warfare, 2nd Edition
This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The second edition has been updated and revised, and includes new chapters on non-western perspectives and hybrid warfare.
Drawing on a range of case studies spanning the First World War through to contemporary conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh, the book explores what is unique about the land domain and how this has shaped the theory and practice of military operations conducted upon it. It also looks at land warfare across the spectrum of its conduct, including conventional campaigning, counterinsurgency, and peace support and stabilisation operations.
Key themes and debates identified and analysed include
• the tensions between change and continuity;
• the role of technology in land warfare;
• the relevance of culture and context;
• the difficulties in translating theory into effective military practice;
• in-depth discussions on issues of immediate contemporary significance, including hybrid warfare, emerging military technologies, and the military reform processes of the US, Russian, and Chinese land forces.
This book will be essential reading for military practitioners and for students of land warfare, military history, war studies and strategic studies.
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