Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Oldenbourg

De Gruyter Studies in Military History

Herausgegeben von: Jörg Echternkamp und Adam Seipp

ISSN: 2701-5629

e-ISSN 2701-5637

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The series focuses on transnational and transregional research, and includes studies that examine the social, cultural, and institutional histories of war, warfare, and military violence. It provides an international platform for scholarly exchange in a dynamic field that lends itself to interdisciplinary approaches.

The series is edited by Jörg Echternkamp and Adam R. Seipp.

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Buch 2023

NATO and the Baltic Approaches 1949–1989

When Perception was Reality

Peter Bogason

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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The theme of the book is the creation of tactics for littoral warfare – as opposed to the more common blue ocean perspective. Themes are how NATO perceived the goals of the enemy; the purposes of the NATO organisations, the military instruments they had to organise, the organization of cooperation among units from sovereign states, and how they tested their military capabilities. Research is based on war plans and tactics of the Danish and West German navies and their planned support from air forces. We follow the modernisations of the navies from guns to missiles. Tactical discussions among military top offi cers are laid bare, and intelligence reports about the Warsaw Pact and its military capabilities are presented. Exercises are analysed based on the military reports.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111235752
ISBN:: 9783111235752
ISBN:: 9783111235769
ISBN:: 9783111234625
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Zeitgeschichte ab 1945
Fachgebiet:: Kalter Krieg
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine europäische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Nordamerika
Fachgebiet:: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Militärgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch Open Access 2024

Homosexuality in the German Armed Forces

A History of Taboo and Tolerance

Klaus Storkmann

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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Homosexuals were mustered out of military service in the Bundeswehr until 1979, after which homosexuality alone was no longer considered grounds for unsuitability. But for homosexual soldiers, military service was an option, but a career was not – they were generally unable to progress to the rank of officer. Storkmann uses interviews, court files, and internal documents to examine the Bundeswehr’s approach toward homosexual soldiers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111082691
ISBN:: 9783111082691
ISBN:: 9783111072012
ISBN:: 9783111083070
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Zeitgeschichte ab 1945
Fachgebiet:: Bundesrepublik / DDR
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Militärgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Sozialgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Geschlechtergeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2023

U.S. Army Intelligence in Germany, 1944–1949

Thomas Boghardt

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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Based on extensive archival research in six countries and intensive fieldwork, the book analyzes the history of the village of Nkholongue on the eastern (Mozambican) shores of Lake Malawi from the time of its formation in the 19th century to the present day. The study uses Nkholongue as a microhistorical lens to examine such diverse topics as the slave trade, the spread of Islam, colonization, subsistence production, counter-insurgency, decolonization, civil war, ecotourism, and matriliny. Thereby, the book attempts to reflect as much as possible on the generalizability and (global) comparability of local findings by framing analyses in historiographical discussions that aim to go beyond the regional or national level. Although the chapters of the book deal with very different topics, they are united by a common interest in the social history of rural Africa in the longue durée. Contrary to persistent clichés of rural inertia in Africa, the book as a whole underscores the profound changeability of social conditions and relations in Nkholongue over the years and highlights how people’s room for maneuver kept changing as a result of the Winds of History, the frequent and often violent ruptures brought to the village from outside.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110988550
ISBN:: 9783110988550
ISBN:: 9783110999259
ISBN:: 9783110988765
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Zeitgeschichte bis 1945
Fachgebiet:: Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Fachgebiet:: Zeitgeschichte ab 1945
Fachgebiet:: Kalter Krieg
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Nordamerika
Fachgebiet:: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Militärgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2022

From Far East to Asia Pacific

Great Powers and Grand Strategy 1900–1954

Brian P. Farrell, S.R. Joey Long, David J. Ulbrich

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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The years 1900 to 1954 marked the transformation from an exotic, colonized "Far East" to a more autonomous, prominent "Asia Pacific". This anthology examines the grand strategies of great powers as they vied for influence and ultimately hegemony in the region. At the turn of the twentieth century, the main contestants included the venerable British Empire and the aspiring Japan and United States. The unwieldy leviathan of China, the European imperial holdings in Southeast Asia, and the expanses of the western Pacific emerged as battlegrounds in literal and geopolitical terms. Other less powerful nations, such as India, Burma, Australia, and French Indochina, also exercised agency in crafting grand strategies to further their interests and in their interactions with those great powers. Among the many factors affecting all nations invested in the Asia Pacific were such traditional elements as economics, military power, and diplomacy, as well as fluid traits like ideology, culture, and personality. The era saw the decline of British and European influence in the Asia Pacific, the rise and fall of Japanese imperialism, the emergence of American primacy, the ongoing struggle for independence in Southeast Asia, and China’s resurrection as a contender for hegemony. Great powers shifted and so too did their grand strategies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110718713
ISBN:: 9783110718713
ISBN:: 9783110717402
ISBN:: 9783110718775
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Zeitgeschichte bis 1945
Fachgebiet:: Andere Themen
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Asien-Pazifik
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Militärgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2022

The Military Revolution and Revolutions in Military Affairs

Mark Charles Fissel

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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The Military Revolution and Revolutions in Military Affairs updates two central debates in military history--the one surrounding the concept of military revolution, and the one on military affairs--whilst advancing original research in both fields. Only a handful of publications consider the military revolution and the RMA in tandem. This book breaks new ground conceptually and appeals to an exceptionally large and diverse readership. Comparative revisionist studies of the military revolution and RMA better enable us to comprehend the historical continuum and reveal the new RMA for what it is. And for what it is shortly to become.

This book presents original contributions within the "epicentre" of the military revolution debate, the 1500s, with an emphasis on gunpowder revolution (offensively and defensively). The connections with the Revolution in Military Affairs are then made explicit by scholars, a practitioner, and an analyst, with an emphasis on airborne lethal autonomous weapons systems. This is a chronologically broad and unique methodological approach to a historical debate that begs for clarification as we enter an era where killer robots will almost certainly take from humans their monopoly on violence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661415
ISBN:: 9783110661415
ISBN:: 9783110657258
ISBN:: 9783110657593
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Frühe Neuzeit
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Militärgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Wissens- und Ideengeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Theorien, Methoden, Historische Hilfswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Geschichtstheorien
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2021

Operation "Valkyrie"

A Military History of the 20 July 1944 Plot

Winfried Heinemann

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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20 July 1944 is usually associated with the bomb plot to murder Hitler. However, what distinguishes Colonel Stauffenberg’s plan from all others is that the attempt on the Führer’s life was only to be the initial stage of a full military coup d’état. The aim was to overthrow the murderous regime, and to end the war as soon as possible.

The conspiracy has long been analyzed from political, social, religious, or moral points of view. This book asks what the military dimension of the plan was. What traditions in the German army were at work, how was planning and preparation done, and why did the plot fail eventually? What is more: how did the conspiracy affect the German armies created in East and West after World War　II, and also the Austrian Army?

As the politicians among the conspirators thought in categories of Imperial Germany or at least the Weimar Republic, the officers among them were conditioned by the Reichswehr. Yet, Stauffenberg and some others were also bright intellectuals who were willing to incorporate their war experience into their plans, rendering them surprisingly modern at times.

The coup d’état had been planned as meticulously as circumstances in war-torn Berlin allowed. However, as most officers had foreseen, once it became public knowledge that Hitler had survived Stauffenberg’s bomb, army units refused to act. The myth surrounding the "Führer" effectively prevented any military action against him.

Still, the failed uprising had its effects: the regime took the opportunity to tilt the balance of power further in favor of Himmler and his fiefdom (SS, Gestapo, Police), to the detriment of the army which Hitler felt was too reactionary anyway.

The leadership of the West German Bundeswehr always saw the failed uprising as part of its tradition, but it took time for this attitude to percolate down to the rank and file. For decades, some of the former Wehrmacht soldiers viewed Stauffenberg and his friends as "traitors".

The book is the first to approach this important event in German history from a specifically military point of view, and that results in some surprising new results.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699333
ISBN:: 9783110699333
ISBN:: 9783110699470
ISBN:: 9783110699180
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Zeitgeschichte bis 1945
Fachgebiet:: Zweiter Weltkrieg
Fachgebiet:: Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Militärgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2021

New Crusade

The Royal Navy and British Navalism, 1884–1914

Bradley Cesario

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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The period between the mid-1880s and the First World War was the high point of the navalist movement - but the idea of 'navalism' took many forms, and meant different problems and different solutions to various groups within British society and the British government. New Crusade examines one form of the British navalist movement: directed navalism. As opposed to the broader cultural conception of British naval power, directed navalism consisted of a cooperative, symbiotic working relationship between three elite and self-selecting groups: serving naval officers (professionals), naval correspondents and editors working for national newspapers and periodicals (press), and members of Parliament who dealt with naval issues (politicians). Directed navalism meant agitation for a specific, achievable goal. It was the bedrock upon which the more popular and ultimately more successful cultural navalism of fleet reviews and music halls was built. Though directed navalism collapsed before the First World War, it was extraordinarily successful in its time, and it was a necessary precursor for the creation of a national discourse in which cultural navalism could thrive. Its rise and fall is the story of this book.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671810
ISBN:: 9783110671810
ISBN:: 9783110671902
ISBN:: 9783110671575
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Neuere Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Westeuropa
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Militärgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Kulturgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2023

Rulers of the Sea

Maritime Strategy and Sea Power in Ancient Greece, 550–321 BCE

John Nash

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

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This is a study of sea power and maritime strategy in the Classical Greek world. More than just a study of navies and battles, it examines how the sea was used to influence events ashore and how the use of naval power combined with land power had a defining impact on the period. After an examination of the oft-overlooked practical issues of navigation and administration, the book explores the idea of a ‘maritime consciousness’ in Greece and how this shaped the way the Greeks engaged in war. Naval operations from the Persian Wars down to the rise of Thebes are examined at the operational and strategic level, including a catalogue of the hundreds of different maritime operations from the 5^th and 4^th centuries BCE. Further, while the great sea power Athens is most prominent, it looks at other city-states to examine how they utilised sea power. This new approach uses modern theory to highlight some enduring lessons of sea power. It demonstrates that Classical scholars should embrace sea power as an important concept in the Greek world. Modern scholars of naval and strategic studies should cast their gaze further back in time when looking for lessons in sea power. This book helps to bridge the scholarship between these two disciplines.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111343167
ISBN:: 9783111343167
ISBN:: 9783111342931
ISBN:: 9783111342856
Fachgebiet:: Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Alte Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Alte Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Militärgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg