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the European Security Study,Strengthening Conventional Deterrence in Europe: Propo-
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Europe, was the key public document in launching this debate; John J. Mearsheimer,
Conventional Deterrence(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983), set the intellec-
tual contours, and Hew Strachan, ‘Conventional Defence in Europe’,International
Affairs, LXI (1984), 27–43, summarizes its development. - Bagnall’s contribution is still in need of a full study, but Colin McInnes,Hot War, Cold
War: The British Army’s Way in Warfare, 1945–95(London: Brassey’s, 1996), 54–75,
covers the main points, and see also John Kiszely,The British Army and Approaches to
Warfare since 1945(Strategic and Combat Studies Institute: The Occasional, no. 26,
1997), reprinted in Brian Holden Reid (ed.),Military Power: Land Warfare in Theory
and Practice(London: Cass, 1997). - Richard Hooker, Jr (ed.),Maneuver Warfare: An Anthology(Novato, CA: Presidio,
1993), contains many of the most important texts for Americans, and makes clear how
important the German, rather than the Russian, model was. - Karl-Heinz Frieser,Blitzkrieg-Legende. Der Westfeldzug 1940(Munich: Oldenbourg,
1995) is the best exposition of these points; for a classic but self-serving misinterpre-
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Defence Studies, CXXXVI, no. 3 (Autumn 1991), 12. - Ma ̈der,In Pursuit of Conceptual Excellence, 99; these papers appeared in the publica-
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memory of Simpkin. - Richard Simpkin,Race to the Swift: Thoughts on Twenty-First Century Warfare(Lon-
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- Michael Yardley and Dennis Sewell,A New Model Army(London: W. H. Allen, 1989),
89.
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Military Power, 207–26. - Johnson, ‘An Option for Change without Decay’, 13.
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