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Wotan's workshop : military experiments before World War II
Title:
Wotan's workshop : military experiments before World War II
Author:
McCue, Brian, author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Quantico, Virginia : Marine Corps University Press, [2013]

©2013
Physical Description:
iv, 65 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"To increased understanding of the process of military experimentation, this CNA occasional paper examines some of these experiments; today, the technologies need no introduction, and the Second World War provides hindsight through which the experiments and their findings can be viewed. The efforts described here have been chosen as an instructive set, not an exhaustive one. This being a work of analysis, rather than history secondary sources--as well as primary sources in the form of some participants' memoirs--have been used freely."--Publisher's website.
General Note:
Shipping list no.: 2013-0277-P.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction -- Themes -- Three idiosyncratic nonservice efforts. G.F. Gause's bugs ; Hector Bywater's wind-up ship models ; Fletcher Pratts naval war game ; Observations on the idiosyncratic efforts -- The U.S. prepares for World War II. The fleet problems, 1923-40 ; The experiments of Billy Mitchell ; Major Pete Ellis and USMC interwar experimentation ; The Army's Louisiana maneuvers ; Pacific Fleet Fighter Direction Officer School ; Observations on the U.S. experiments -- Germany prepares for World War II. The German army's experiments with Blitzkrieg ; The German Navy's experiments with Wolf packs -- Overall observations -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Format :
Book