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Arms and the Man History of Warfare Editors Kelly DeVries Loyola College Maryland John France University of Wales Swansea Michael S. Neiberg University of Southern Mississippi Frederick Schneid High Point University North Carolina VOLUME 68 Arms and the Man Military History Essays in Honor of Dennis Showalter Edited by Michael S. Neiberg LEIDEN • BOSTON 2011 Cover illustration: Finnish soldiers with Panzerfausts at the battle of Tali-Ihantala on the Karelian Isthmus, 30 June 1944. Photo: SA 155340. With kind permission of Th e Finnish Defense Forces, Photographic Centre. Th is book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Arms and the man : military history essays in honor of Dennis Showalter / edited by Michael S. Neiberg. p. cm. -- (History of warfare ; v. 68) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-20668-7 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Military history. 2. Military art and science--History. I. Neiberg, Michael S. II. Showalter, Dennis E. III. Title. IV. Series. D25.5.A77 2011 355.009--dc22 2011007831 ISSN 1385-7827 ISBN 978 90 04 20668 7 Copyright 2011 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, Th e Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to Th e Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. CONTENTS List of Contributors .................................................................................vii Introduction ...............................................................................................1 Michael S. Neiberg Loving the German War Machine: America’s Infatuation with Blitzkrieg, Warfi ghters, and Militarism ......................................5 William J. Astore ‘Clash of the Titans’: Law vs Security in World War II Britain .............31 Mary Kathryn Barbier Military Cultures, Military Histories and the Current Emergency ...........................................................................................63 Jeremy Black Manstein, the Battle of Kharkov, and the Limits of Command ............83 Robert M. Citino Th e Question of Medieval Military Professionalism ............................113 Kelly DeVries Modern Soldier in a Busby: August von Mackensen, 1914–1916 .........................................................................................131 Richard L. DiNardo Winning and Losing: France on the Marne and on the Meuse ...........169 Robert A. Doughty Th e Forgotten Campaign: Alsace-Lorraine August 1914 ....................193 Holger H. Herwig “Total War, Total Nonsense” or “Th e Military Historian’s Fetish” ................................................................................................215 Eugenia C. Kiesling vi contents England’s “Descent” on France and the Origins of Blue-water Strategy ..............................................................................................243 Robert McJimsey Conclusion .............................................................................................259 Dennis Showalter List of Books by Dennis Showalter .......................................................267 Select Bibliography ..................................................................................269 Index .........................................................................................................273 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS William J. Astore Professor of History, Pennsylvania College of Technology Mary Kathryn Barbier Associate Professor of History, Mississippi State University Jeremy Black Professor of History, University of Exeter Robert M. Citino Military History Center, University of North Texas Kelly DeVries Loyola University Maryland and Honorary Historical Consultant, Royal Armouries Richard L. DiNardo USMC Command and Staff College, Quantico, Virginia Robert A. Doughty U.S. Military Academy (Retired) Holger H. Herwig Canada Research Chair in Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary, Canada Robert McJimsey Professor of History, Colorado College, 1968–2004. Eugenia C. Kiesling Professor of History, United States Military Academy, West Point viii list of contributors Michael S. Neiberg Harold K. Johnson Professor of Military History, United States Army War College Dennis E. Showalter Professor of History, Colorado College INTRODUCTION Michael S. Neiberg I had the great pleasure of sharing a city, if not a department, with Dennis Showalter for eight years. Dennis was by then a legendary visit- ing professor and frequent guest lecturer at the United States Air Force Academy, my fi rst job out of graduate school. Dennis had also served in similar positions at West Point and the United States Marine Corps University. In 1998, when I showed up in Colorado Springs, Dennis had just returned to his home department at Colorado College. Over those eight years, I benefi ted from his friendship, his advice, and his library. It is an honor for me to able to present this festschrift to him as a humble token of my thanks for all that he did to help me become the scholar I am. I knew Dennis by reputation, of course, long before I came to Colorado. I had read virtually everything he had written and admired the logical, careful way Dennis had of analyzing diffi cult problems. His Tannenberg: Clash of Empires and Railroads and Rifl es had become must reads for anyone who wanted to understand warfare in the 19th and 20th centuries. As I was to learn, however, Dennis’s interests ranged well beyond military history, including a deep love of baseball (our friendship has survived not only political disagreements, but his attach- ment to the New York Yankees as well), country music, and even the television program Buff y the Vampire Slayer, at a conference on which Dennis once presented a paper. At our fi rst meeting, a chance encounter in the hallway, Dennis asked me what I was working on. I told him that my dissertation was revised and about to be sent to Harvard University Press for considera- tion. Dennis off ered to read it and I scurried back to my offi ce to get the manuscript like a young undergraduate eager to show the professor that I belonged in his class. Dennis had the manuscript back to me within a few days with thoughtful commentary and suggestions. He also attached a copy of the letter he had written to the press urging them to publish the book. I soon came to depend on this kind of energy, encouragement, and criticism from Dennis, who never shied away from telling me where he thought I was wrong, but always at the same time brought out the best in what I could write.

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These essays honor Dennis Showalter, a pioneer in the field of military history and a mentor to an entire generation of scholars. The essays themselves are written by some of the best-known and most highly-respected scholars in the field. They span the globe and cover a wide range of military histor