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29 October 2017

Time in War

By Phillip S Meilinger for National Defense University Press

In this article, Phillip Meilinger explores the crucial role time has played in warfare since antiquity, and how commanders and military thinkers have tried to harness it for their advantage. More specifically, Meilinger looks at 1) what notions of time matter most to military actors; 2) examples of the decisive impact time has played on the battlefield since Napoleon´s miscalculation about when battle would commence at Borodino in 1812; and 3) how the quest to ‘conquer time’ took on new vigor in warfare following the invention of the airplane.

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