Mike Bullock, Laurence A. Lyons

Missed Signals on the Western Front

How the Slow Adoption of Wireless Restricted British Strategy and Operations in World War I

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Produktbeschreibung

Though wireless communication was in early development during World War I, the technology could have made a profound impact on tactical operations and on the entire strategic conduct of the war. Providing details on how and why the technology did not fulfill its promise as a great military tool until years later, the book points primarily to the British army's institutional bias against wireless communication as the technology's downfall, reinforced by the crude, unreliable wireless sets with which the army began the war. It also demonstrates how improved wireless communications between infantry, command, artillery and air observation could have improved the flexibility, accuracy and effectiveness of the British military strategy in the German Spring Offensive, the Hundred Days Counteroffensive and the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, and Cambrai.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9780786449378
• ISBN-10: 0786449373
• Artikelnr.: 29345458

Autorenporträt

The late Mike Bullock was a retired bank director. He lived in Warwickshire, England.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Introduction     
1. Military Wireless Before the War     
2. Operational Signals-Pre-war and Early Mobile Warfare     
3. Operational Signals-Static Warfare in 1915     
4. 1915-The RFC Invents Wireless Telephony     
5. Operational Signals on the Somme     
6. A Counterfactual-The Somme with Wireless Telephony     
7. Operational Signals in 1917     
8. A Counterfactual-Passchendaele and Cambrai with Wireless Telephony     
9. Operational Signals in 1918     
10. A Counterfactual-The German Spring Offensive and Hundred Days with
Wireless Telephony     
11. Command, Control and Communications     
12. Intercept, Encryption and Jamming     
13. An Assessment of Wireless as It Was Actually Employed     
Conclusion     
Appendix A: Wireless Technology     
Appendix B: Signal Service Units, 1914     
Appendix C: Signals Service Units Later in the War     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index