Book Review: The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War

Authors

James D. Scudieri

Files

Description

Author: Huw J. Davies

Reviewed by Dr. James D. Scudieri, senior research historian, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College

Senior research historian Dr. James D. Scudieri lends his expertise to review King’s College London academic Huw J. Davies’s most recent book, a “powerful monograph” on the 1750–1850 British Army’s “accidental military enlightenment.” Scudieri provides a chapter-by-chapter overview of the book’s contents and praises Davies for “[setting] the standard for military theoreticians and senior British commanders to integrate theory and practice in the big picture and in the field.” He calls the book a “formidable achievement” and notes that the “emphasis on informal knowledge exchanges is a rare, albeit difficult, element to study.”

Publication Date

5-20-2024

Keywords

British Army development, British Army eighteenth-century campaigns, British Army Napoleonic campaigns, army adaptation, army learning, and army innovation

Disciplines

Defense and Security Studies

Recommended Citation

James D. Scudieri, Book Review: The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War ( US Army War College Press, 2024),
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/44