Missed Signals on the Western Front: How the Slow Adoption of Wireless Restricted British Strategy and Operations in World War I

by Laurence A. Lyons and Mike Bullock

Book Overview

Though wireless communication was in early development during World War I, the technology could have made a profound impact on tactical operations and on the entire strategic conduct of the war. Providing details on how and why the technology did not fulfill its promise as a great military tool until years later, the book points primarily to the British army's institutional bias against wireless communication as the technology's downfall, reinforced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786449373
• ISBN13: 9780786449378
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher