
	History magazine - researches Reference: Magadeev I.E. On the problem of adaptation of military to technical changes: a tank and its’ place in French war thought in 1920th // History magazine - researches. 2012. № 2. P. 85-91. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59320 Magadeev I.E. On the problem of adaptation of military to technical changes: a tank and its’ place in French war thought in 1920th Abstract: this article deals with question of military innovations and mechanisms of military elites adaptation to technical changes. Based on the new for the Russian historiography sources and a wide range of literature, on example of France in 1920th the author reveals base factors that influenced the adaptation of military to a new means of war – a tank, offers a basic scheme of how military adapts to new technical realities, compares French tank doctrine of 1920th to the German “blitzkrieg”. Keywords: history, history of mechanism, military doctrine, tank, mechanized war, strategic mobility, factor of military organization, “blitzkrieg”, adaptation to technical changes, sociocultural factor This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article This article written in Russian. You can find original text of the article here . References 1. Magadeev I.E. Frantsuzskaya voennaya elita v 1920-e gg.: v poiskakh novoy kontseptsii bezopasnosti. M., 2011. Rukopis' deponirovana v INION RAN 21 marta 2011 g. № 60971. 2. Mey E. Strannaya pobeda: istoriya voennogo porazheniya Frantsii v 1940 g. M., 2009. 3. Tanki mira / Sost. R. Ismagilov. Smolensk, 2002. 4. Baumann T., Segesser D.M. Shadows of Total War in French and British Military Journals, 1918-1939 // The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939 / Ed. by R. Chickering, S. Forster. Cambridge, 2003. P.197-222. 5. Carter D.S. Innovation, Wargaming, and the Development of Armored Warfare. M.S. Dissertation. MIT, 2005. 6. Corum J.S. The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans Von Seeckt and German Military Reform. Lawrence, 1992. 7. Idem. A Clash of Military Cultures: German & French Approaches to Technology between the World Wars // Papers for the USAF Academy Symposium. Colorado Springs, September 1994. P.1-38. 8. Doughty R.A. The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-1939. Hamden, 1985. 9. Idem. The French Armed Forces, 1918-1940 // Military Effectiveness. Vol.2: The Interwar Years / Ed. by A.R. Millett, W. Murray. Boston, 1988. P.39-69. 10. The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II / Ed. by C. Bishop. New York, 2002. 11. Fuller J.F.C. Tanks in the Great War, 1914-1918. New York, 1920. 12. Geyer M. German Strategy in the Age of Machine Warfare, 1914-1945 // Makers of Modern Strategy. / Ed. by P. Paret. Princeton, 1986. P.527-597. 13. Histoire militaire de la France / Sous la dir. d’A. Corvisier. Tome III. Paris, 1992. 14. Hughes J. M. To the Maginot Line. Cambridge (Mass.), 1971. 15. Kaufmann J.E., Kaufmann H.W. Fortress France: The Maginot Line and French Defenses in World War II. Westport, 2005. 16. Kier E. Culture and French Military Doctrine Before World War II // The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics / Ed. by P. Katzenstein. New York, 1996. P.186-215. 17. Nichipurok B. Learning the Lessons of War: the Impact of World War I upon the interwar Great Powers. Ph.D. Dissertation. MIT, 1993. 18. Orr A. Mental Maginot Lines: Anti-Republicanism, Gender, and Voting Rights in the Politics of the French Army, 1871-1940. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Notre Dame, 2007. 19. Poirier M. The Problem of Army Renewal: Seeckt and the Reichswehr // The Changing Face of War: Learning from History / Ed. by A.D. English. Montreal, 1998. P.83-102. 20. Posen B.R. The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany between the World Wars. Ithaca, 1984. 21. Strohn M. The German Army and the Defence of the Reich: Military Doctrine and the Conduct of Defensive Battle, 1918-1939. Cambridge, 2010.

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Magadeev I.E. On the problem of adaptation of military to technical changes: a tank and its’ place in French war thought in 1920th