Give us back our field army! The Dutch army leadership and the operational planning during the interwar years

Authors
Publication date 2011
Host editors
  • H. Amersfoort
  • W. Klinkert
Book title Small powers in the age of total war, 1900-1940
ISBN
  • 9789004203211
Series History of warfare, 65
Pages (from-to) 251-279
Publisher Leiden, Boston: Brill
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
Abstract The 1922 Army Reform Bill reduced the Dutch army to a militia. During the period between the two World Wars Dutch army leadership sought to rebuild an army that in several repects (organization, armement, doctrine) could be compared to the armies of great powers like France and Germany. The army leadership pursued this course of action although budget constraints and political opposition stood in the way. This must be attributed to the military culture in army leadership circles in the period.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004203211.i-372.79
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