Victory or Defeat: Armies in the Aftermath of Conflict (2010) By Peter Dennis & Jeffrey Grey
 
Victory or Defeat: Armies in the Aftermath of Conflict, edited by Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey are the printed proceedings of the 2010 Chief of Army History Conference. These papers are fully referenced and represent the latest academic research from world recognised experts in their fields.
 
War is a fearsome auditor of nations, cultures and societies, and victory or defeat provides the balance sheets by which its impact is assessed. This collection ranges across time and place in analysing the manner in which armies have responded to the outcomes of war. Papers included are: Alan Forrest, A Glorious Defeat? How the French Remembered the Armies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; David Silbey, Losing the Insurgent Twentieth Century: The United States Army and Reform after the Philippine-American War, 1902-1916; Mustafa Aksakal, Lessons of Defeat, Lessons for War: The Ottoman Empire; John W Steinberg, How Military Tradition Prevailed and Reform Failed to Prevent the Collapse of the Russian Empire; George C Peden, The British Army after the Victories of 1918 and 1945; Geoffrey P Megargee, The German Army after the Great War: A Case Study in Selective Self-Deception; Graeme Sligo, Liberating Australian New Guinea and British Borneo: The Directorate of Research and Post-Hostilities Planning, 1943-1945; Damien Fenton, Hiroshima over Hanoi: The Atomic Battlefield in SEATO Contingency Planning, 1955-1965; Carlyle A Thayer, The Vietnam Peoples Army: Victory at Home (1975), Success in Cambodia (1989); Henry G Gole, The US Army in the Aftermath of Conflict; Ian van der Waag, The South African Military and Post-Conflict Integrations in the Twentieth Century. 
 
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233 pages
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