Fascist and Liberal Visions of War Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and Other Modernists,9780198207153

Fascist and Liberal Visions of War Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and Other Modernists

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ISBN13: 9780198207153
ISBN10: 0198207158
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-12-03
Publisher(s): Clarendon Press
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Summary

In this ground-breaking study, Dr Azar Gat investigates the fascist background behind the ideas of the leading theorists of mechanized war in the first half of this century. He re-evaluates the contribution of B.Liddell Hart, presenting him as the pioneer of the modern western liberal way in warfare, a man who developed the theory of the tactical 'cold war' in the decade before nuclear weapons became a military reality.

Table of Contents

PART I. FASCIST MODERNISM AND VISIONARIES OF MACHINE WARFARE 1(124)
Introduction: The `Janus Face' of Fascism
3(10)
J. F. C. Fuller: Positivism, Evolution, Fascism, and Future Warfare
13(30)
Futurism, Proto-Fascist Italian Culture, and the Sources of Douhetism
43(37)
German Right-Wing Radicalism, Strategic Adventurism, and Mechanized Warfare
80(24)
Comparisons and Contrasts (I): American Populism, Progressivism, and Mid-West Technological Modernism
104(10)
Comparisons and Contrasts (II): Marxism, Modernism, and the Doctrine of `Deep Battle'
114(8)
Conclusion
122(3)
PART II. LIDDELL HART, MODERN, AND `POST-MODERN' STRATEGY 125(186)
Introduction
127(3)
Background: The First World War in Western Consciousness
130(16)
Theory: Limited War, Moderate Peace, and the Strategy of Indirect Approach
146(32)
Policy: Defence of the West (I): Containment in the 1930s
178(88)
Policy: Defence of the West (II): Hot War---Cold War
266(40)
Conclusion: `The Western Way in Warfare', Past and Future
306(5)
Bibliography 311(19)
Index 330

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