A Scientific Way of War – Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Orig…

A Scientific Way of WarAntebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought\nAuthor(s): Ian C. Hope\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803276857, 978-0803276857\nSynopsis\nWhile faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study of military science. Officers of the regular army and instructors at the military academy and their political superiors all believed strongly in the possibility of acquiring a perfect knowledge of war through the proper curriculum.\nA Scientific Way of War analyzes how the doctrine of military science evolved from teaching specific Napoleonic applications to embracing subjects that wereuseful for wa.