Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914–1918

davidbfpo · Jul 15, 2019

This book has been out awhile, this is the first review (October 2017) I've spotted via Twitter, albeit on an obscure blogsite with an American author.

He opens with:

...is simply one of the best accounts of how military organizations learn that I’ve ever read. Fox describes in great detail the mechanisms through which the British Army tried to update itself in World War I. She demonstrates that many of the popular understandings of the army during the war are flawed, if not outright wrong. Her work should serve as a template for future work on how military organizations learn.

(At the end) Altogether, however, this is a fantastic book, and I highly recommend it to specialists on military organizations, to specialists on the First World War, and to general readers with an interest in how military organizations work and how the British Army fought World War I.
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Link: Sunday Book Review: Learning to Fight - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The author Dr Aimee Fox earned her PhD @ B'ham University and is now @ Kings College London. Their bio for her: Dr Aimée Fox

Link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Fight-Innovation-1914-1918-Cambridge/dp/1107190797

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