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From Thermopylae to Belfast, elite military formations have been deployed against conventional or irregular forces. This study offers a superb analysis of elites in military history. A collection of brilliant studies by distinguished scholars, it illuminates, through a combination of overview and case study, a historical subject that has profound implications for the development of specialized forces in the post-Cold War Era. The study uses a comparative approach which investigates the topic over time and across culture.
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Looks at military elites across time and culture.
About the Author
A. HAMISH ION is Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is a specialist in modern Japanese history. His most recent monograph is The Cross and the Rising Sun: The British Protestant Missionary Movement in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, 1865-1945 (1993). He has recently edited with B.J.C. McKercher, Military Heretics: The Unorthodox in Policy and Strategy (Praeger, 1994).
KEITH NEILSON is Professor of History and Head of the History Department at the Royal Military College of Canada. He has written Strategy and Supply: Anglo-Russian Relations 1914-1917. He is the editor with B.J.C. McKercher of Go Spy the Land: Military Intelligence in History (Praeger, 1992). Neilson has published a wide range of articles on British diplomatic and military history.
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- PublisherPraeger
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0275946401
- ISBN 13 9780275946401
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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