Training the Troops: British and Commonwealth Armies, 1939-1945

训练军队：英国和英联邦军队，1939 年至 1945 年

• 批准号: 2742563
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2742563
• 关键词: Training; Troops; British; Commonwealth; Armies

In his unpublished autobiography, Major General Lewis Owen Lyne recounts an anecdote about General Montgomery speaking at the Senior Officers' School in 1942. An officer commented that Montgomery's talk was the opposite to what was written in the military training pamphlet he was brandishing, to which Montgomery replied by asking who wrote the pamphlet and he looked forward to reading all the training pamphlets produced by the War Office once the war was over.This view of training in the British Army has persisted in the historiography. This PhD project will, therefore, carry out thorough archival research at the IWM and at archives across Britain and the Commonwealth to examine the validity ofMontgomery's framing of the subject.To achieve this end, the research project sets out to understand how the British and Commonwealth Armies prepared and trained to fight a multi-front multinational global war. The thesis will firstly document the work of the Directorate of Military Training at the War Office, which was responsible for producing suitable doctrine and the ensuing training pamphlets in the British Army. However, the thesis will also have a transnational dimension. It will be both a top down and a bottom up study of training across the British Empire and Commonwealth that fully embraces the lived experience of soldiers, whether they came from, for example, Britain, Canada, India or Africa.The thesis will pursue four key strands of enquiry:1. The Organisational and Doctrinal Framework.2. Inter-Theatre Learning.3. Training and Combat Performance.4. The Lived Experience of Training.

在未出版的自传中，刘易斯·欧文·莱恩少将讲述了蒙哥马利将军1942年在高级军官学校发表讲话的轶事。一名军官评论说，蒙哥马利的言论与他挥舞的军事训练手册上写的相反，蒙哥马利回答说，是谁写了这本小册子，他期待着在战争结束后阅读战争办公室制作的所有训练手册。这种关于英国陆军训练的观点一直坚持在史学中。因此，这个博士项目将在IWM以及英国和英联邦各地的档案馆进行彻底的档案研究，以检验蒙哥马利对这一主题的框架的有效性。为了实现这一目标，该研究项目着手了解英国和英联邦军队是如何为打一场多战线的多国全球战争而准备和训练的。本文将首先记录战争办公室军事训练局的工作，该局负责制作适当的教义和随后在英国军队中的训练小册子。然而，这篇论文也将具有跨国维度。这将是一项关于大英帝国和英联邦训练的自上而下和自下而上的研究，全面涵盖士兵的生活经历，无论他们来自英国、加拿大、印度还是非洲。这篇论文将探索四个关键线索：1.组织和教义框架。大区之间的学习。3.训练和战斗表现。训练的亲身体验。