The Evolution of Operational Art. From Napoleon to the Present

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THE EVOLUTION OF OPERATIONAL ART FROM NAPOLEON TO THE PRESENT Edited by JOHN ANDREAS OLSEN AND MARTIN VAN CREVELD 1 ...

3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxfordox 26 dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the Un ...

Preface This book project, initiated and sponsored by the Swedish National Defence College’s Department of Military Studies, beg ...

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Contents Prologue by Professor Sir Michael Howard ix List of Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 John Andreas Olsen and Martin van ...

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Prologue Professor Sir Michael Howard ‘Operational art’, so the editors of this book point out, ‘is the grey area between strate ...

Israeli army, why the American military and its imitators have produced many competent managers but very few ‘great captains’. G ...

In his contribution to this volume General Rupert Smith tells us why. The era of ‘industrial war’ is over—at least, for the time ...

List of Abbreviations ACTS Air Corps Tactical School AEF American Expeditionary Force ARRC Ace Rapid Reaction Corps AWRD Authori ...

PLA People’s Liberation Army PLO Palestine Liberation Organization PRC People’s Republic of China PU-36 Temporary Field Regulati ...

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Introduction John Andreas Olsen and Martin van Creveld Operational art emerged as a new and distinct component of warfare in the ...

campaigns and theatres of war. Hence, the concept was implicit in their theories, which served as a foundation for successive ge ...

important milestones in the evolution of operational art: not only the flashes of genius and intellectual apexes, but also the p ...

return to power: the defeat of Austria in 1866 by Prussia and the defeat of France in 1870–1 by a Prussian-led alliance. Field M ...

linked operations Bagration and Lvov-Sandomierz in the summer of 1944 an ‘outstanding example of Soviet operational art’. Althou ...