Challenge of Change

"The Challenge of Change" examines how military institutions attempted to meet the demands of the new strategic, political, and technological realities of the turbulent era between the First and Second World Wars. The contributors chose France, Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States as focus countries because their military institutions endeavored to develop both the material capacity and the conceptual framework for the conduct of modern industrialized warfare on a continental scale. Also included in this title are an introduction describing the intellectual and practical challenges facing the military reformer in peacetime and a concluding essay by Dennis Showalter drawing together the themes examined in the preceding studies and setting these themes in an interpretive, historiographical context."The Challenge of Change" has been designed to meet the needs of historians, military professionals, and defense analysts. Harold R. Winton is professor of military history and theory and David R. Mets is professor of technology and innovation at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Winton is the author of "To Change an Army: General Sir John Burnett-Stuart and British Armored Doctrine, 1927-1938". Mets is the author of several books, including "The Air Campaign: John Warden and the Classical Airpower Theorists".