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Michael A. Hunzeker - Dying to Learn: Wartime Lessons from the Western Front (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

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In Dying to Learn, Michael Hunzeker develops a novel theory to explain how wartime militaries learn. He focuses on the Western Front, which witnessed three great-power armies struggle to cope with deadlock throughout the First World War, as the British, French, and German armies all pursued the same solutions-assault tactics, combined arms, and elastic defense in depth. By the end of the war, only the German army managed to develop and implement a set of revolutionary offensive, defensive, and combined arms doctrines that in hindsight represented the best way to fight.Hunzeker identifies three organizational variables that determine how fighting militaries generate new ideas, distinguish good ones from bad ones, and implement the best of them across the entire organization. These factors are: the degree to which leadership delegates authority on the battlefield; how effectively the organization retains control over soldier and officer training; and whether or not the military possesses an independent doctrinal assessment mechanism.Through careful study of the British, French, and German experiences in the First World War, Dying to Learn provides a model that shows how a resolute focus on analysis, command, and training can help prepare modern militaries for adapting amidst high-intensity warfare in an age of revolutionary technological change.

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A VOLUME IN THE SERIES Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Edited by - photo 1

A VOLUME IN THE SERIES

Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

Edited by Robert Jervis, Robert J. Art, and Stephen M. Walt

A list of titles in this series is available at cornellpress.cornell.edu .

Dying to Learn

Wartime Lessons from the Western Front

M ICHAEL A. H UNZEKER

Cornell University Press

Ithaca and London

Copyright 2021 by Cornell University

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu .

First published 2021 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hunzeker, Michael A., author.

Title: Dying to learn : wartime lessons from the Western Front / Michael A. Hunzeker.

Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. | Series: Cornell studies in security affairs | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020057756 (print) | LCCN 2020057757 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501758454 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501758478 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501758461 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Germany. HeerHistoryWorld War, 19141918. | Great Britain. ArmyHistoryWorld War, 19141918. | France. ArmeHistoryWorld War, 19141918. | World War, 19141918CampaignsWestern Front. | Military art and scienceEuropeHistory20th century. | TacticsHistory20th century.

Classification: LCC D530 .H87 2021 (print) | LCC D530 (ebook) | DDC 940.4/144dc23

LC record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2020057756

LC ebook record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2020057757

Cover photograph: A raiding party from the 10th Battalion, Scottish Rifles (Cameronians). Near Arras, March 24, 1917. Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection, catalogue no. Q5101, Imperial War Museum.

For my wife, Major Yu-Ching Yeh, and my brother, Major Adam Hunzeker

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Dying to Learntries to explain why some militaries are better at learning than others. I have struggled with this question for the better part of two decades, and I owe a great deal to those who have helped me along the way. I am particularly indebted to Aaron Friedberg, for his support and encouragement, and Stephen Rosen, whose pioneering theory of military innovation I am trying to build upon. Ezra Suleiman and Edward Erickson provided crucial guidance throughout the writing process. Ryan Grauer, Adam Grissom, and Ed Rhodesalong with Jordan Cohen, Matthew Fay, and Kendrick Kuooffered invaluable feedback as part of a book workshop. I likewise received a number of helpful ideas and suggestions from participants of the 2018 National Security Scholars and Practitioners Program. I have valued Alexander Lanoszkas friendship, advice, and reassurance throughout this long and winding journey. I also want to thank Jonathan Askonas, Stephen Biddle, Barret Bradstreet, Ahsan Butt, Matt Campbell, Thomas Christensen, Mark Christopher, Liam Collins, Luke Condra, Zack Cooper, Mark Crow, Christina Davis, Rex Douglass, Colin Dueck, Thomas Ehrhard, Joanne Gowa, Kristen Harkness, Christopher Hamner, Jerad Harper, Gregory Koblentz, Raymond Kuo, Ellen Laipson, Adam Liff, Matthew Lundgren, Robert McGrath, Rohan Mukherjee, Joseph Petrucelli, Jim Pfiffner, Eric Reid, Mark Rozell, Thomas Scherer, John Schutte, A. Trevor Thrall, and Keren Yahri-Milo for their advice and assistance over the years. Roger Haydon, along with the entire staff at Cornell University Press, did an amazing job of helping me (finally) get this book across the finish line. And I want to gratefully acknowledge the Bradley Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs for their financial support.

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