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Informationen zum Autor Roman Jarymowycz, a retired Canadian Army officer, holds a PhD in military history and has taught at the Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College and the Royal Military College of Canada. He lives in Canada. Klappentext History of cavalry from horses to tanks and helicopters. Zusammenfassung For centuries, mounted cavalry dominated the battlefield through shock and mobility. Cavalry from Hoof to Track traces the evolution of cavalry through the ages, from the warhorse to the tank and helicopter, demonstrating how cavalry’s survival has depended on creative responses to the changing dynamics of modern warfare. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by General Donn A Starry; Preface; Cavalry & the Operational Art; The Classical Horse; The West in Decline: Mongol Cavalry; The Medieval Cavalry; Into the Aufk1arung. Cavalry & the Lace Wars; Napoleonics! Part I: Cavalry Becomes an Operational Arm; Napoleonics! Part II: Ulm to Waterloo; The Industrialised Warhorse: From Balaclava to Gettysburg; The Warhorse versus Technology: From Mars-La-Tour to Little Bighorn: From the Sudan to Manchuria; Cavalry in the Great War! Part I: The Golden Summer; Cavalry in the Great War! Part II: Tactical Stalemate & Quest for Breakthrough; Mechanisation & the Cavalry: Toward an Epiphanic Moment; Cavalry in the Second World War! Part I: The American Apocalypse; Cavalry in the Second World War! Part II: The Horse within Blitzkrieg; Cavalry in the Second World War! Part III: The Russian Warhorse & the Tank; Cold Warhorse: Pegasus ex Machina; The Warhorse in the New Millennium: Hoofed & Tracked; The Deliquescence of the Cavalry; Index.
