Bruce W Menning
Biographic Data
| ID | 1033901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce W Menning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce W |
| FAMILY NAME | Menning |
| SIGNATURE | MENNING B W |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Army Command and General Staff College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge History of the Second World War
The military events of the Second World War have been the subject of historical debate from 1945 to the present. It mattered greatly who won, and fighting was the essential determinant of victory or defeat. In Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War a team of twenty-five leading historians offer a comprehensive and authoritative new account of the war's military and strategic history. Part I examines the military cultures and st…
Russian Military Intelligence, July 1914
Although significant for assessments of war imminence and adversarial warning indicators, military intelligence has figured only sporadically in the immense literature on the July Crisis of 1914. S
The Russo-japanese War in Global Perspective
Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective
Miscalculating One’s Enemies
On the basis of archival and printed sources, this article examines the role that Russian military intelligence played in miscalculating the Japanese threat before the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. The treatment focuses on three general problem areas: assessments of Japanese military and naval strength and combat readiness; perceptions of war imminence and the related possibility of surprise; and Japanese intentions. Evidence ind…
Pieces of the Puzzle
old Russian proverb asserts that 'success has many fathers; failure is always an orphan.' For historians of the First World War, this adage aptly applies to the origins of the flawed strategic concept inherent in Russian Mobilization Schedule 19. Originally crafted in two versions during 1912, Schedule 19 in its 'A' variant dictated actual Russian strategic deployments for initial offensive operations in August 1914. Despite Schedule i9A's explic…
Bayonets before Bullets
Bayonets Before Bullets
Guns for the Tsar
From Serf to Russian Soldier
A. I. Chernyshev
If it can be said that the Cossacks of nineteenthand twentieth-century Russia owed the shape and scale of their existence to the designs of any individual, then that individual was Prince Aleksandr Ivanovich Chernyshev (1785-1857). In successive capacities as cavalry commander, aidede-camp to two tsars, military reformer, and war minister, he led Cossacks into battle, stressed their continuing importance in the post-Napoleonic military order, pre…
Russian Military Innovation in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Terskie kazaki (seredina XVI-nachalo XX v.)
History of the Cossacks
Miscalculating One’s Enemies
On the basis of archival and printed sources, this article examines the role that Russian military intelligence played in miscalculating the Japanese threat before the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. The treatment focuses on three general problem areas: assessments of Japanese military and naval strength and combat readiness; perceptions of war imminence and the related possibility of surprise; and Japanese intentions. Evidence ind…
Pieces of the Puzzle
old Russian proverb asserts that 'success has many fathers; failure is always an orphan.' For historians of the First World War, this adage aptly applies to the origins of the flawed strategic concept inherent in Russian Mobilization Schedule 19. Originally crafted in two versions during 1912, Schedule 19 in its 'A' variant dictated actual Russian strategic deployments for initial offensive operations in August 1914. Despite Schedule i9A's explic…
Bayonets before Bullets
Russian Military Innovation in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
History of the Cossacks
Terskie kazaki (seredina XVI-nachalo XX v.)
Russian Military Innovation in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
A. I. Chernyshev
If it can be said that the Cossacks of nineteenthand twentieth-century Russia owed the shape and scale of their existence to the designs of any individual, then that individual was Prince Aleksandr Ivanovich Chernyshev (1785-1857). In successive capacities as cavalry commander, aidede-camp to two tsars, military reformer, and war minister, he led Cossacks into battle, stressed their continuing importance in the post-Napoleonic military order, pre…
From Serf to Russian Soldier
Guns for the Tsar
Bayonets Before Bullets
Bayonets before Bullets
Pieces of the Puzzle
old Russian proverb asserts that 'success has many fathers; failure is always an orphan.' For historians of the First World War, this adage aptly applies to the origins of the flawed strategic concept inherent in Russian Mobilization Schedule 19. Originally crafted in two versions during 1912, Schedule 19 in its 'A' variant dictated actual Russian strategic deployments for initial offensive operations in August 1914. Despite Schedule i9A's explic…
Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective
Miscalculating One’s Enemies
On the basis of archival and printed sources, this article examines the role that Russian military intelligence played in miscalculating the Japanese threat before the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. The treatment focuses on three general problem areas: assessments of Japanese military and naval strength and combat readiness; perceptions of war imminence and the related possibility of surprise; and Japanese intentions. Evidence ind…
The Russo-japanese War in Global Perspective
The Cambridge History of the Second World War
The military events of the Second World War have been the subject of historical debate from 1945 to the present. It mattered greatly who won, and fighting was the essential determinant of victory or defeat. In Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War a team of twenty-five leading historians offer a comprehensive and authoritative new account of the war's military and strategic history. Part I examines the military cultures and st…
Russian Military Intelligence, July 1914
Although significant for assessments of war imminence and adversarial warning indicators, military intelligence has figured only sporadically in the immense literature on the July Crisis of 1914. S
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