The Evolution of Operational Art. From Napoleon to the Present
preventing any news of them from leaking out. But whereas the French, with their corps d’arme ́eorganization, felt equal to any ...
might be waiting for him there? To guard against this danger, Napoleon planned the corps’ movements in such a way that, marching ...
I have just received your dispatch of 9 October, 18.00 hours [as the crow flies the distance between Plauen and Ebersdorf is les ...
were to overtake him and march all the way to Naumburg and Auerstadt. There, turning about and facing west, they would form the ...
whole of Europe within a few short years. But whereas supernovae disappear when their fuel runs out, revolutions in military aff ...
totally unfit for operational command; ‘a goose whom I have turned into an eagle of sorts’, was Napoleon’s own cruel, but not un ...
Major with a comprehensive order valid for all the corps. This done, they could have used his directive as a basis for writing t ...
L. von M., ‘Review ofU ̈ber der Einfluss der Eisenbahnen und Telegraphen auf die Kriegsoperationen’,O ̈sterreichische Milita ̈r ...
Napoleon to Louis of Holland, 30 September 1806,Correspondance, vol. xiii, no. 10920, 292–6. Clausewitz,On War, 494. See H. Ott ...
2 Prussian–German Operational Art, 1740–1943 Dennis E. Showalter INTRODUCTION: MATRICES ‘Operational art’ is usually and reasona ...
equivalent is the more sterile phrase ‘situational awareness’. The German concept incorporated as well the importance of panache ...
Frederick never made the point explicit, may well have been his justification for the devastating, and career-destroying, critiq ...
The Prussian army of the Wars of Liberation remained more the force of a GermanKleinstaatthan of a great power. The increasing t ...
Whether he actually defined a third interim level or used ‘strategy’ in a way that today would mean ‘operational art’ is often d ...
force must be larger than previously accepted—an army corps at least. The larger the numbers, the more the possibilities of ‘fog ...
while the 2nd advanced on their left flank. The rest is familiar history: 3 July 1866 witnessed arguably the most decisive and s ...
the French army. A decisive victory would put pay to French military power. Of no less significance, it would convince other pow ...
throwing his two divisions across an entire army’s axis of movement. 32 The tactical outcome depended essentially on the quality ...
latter usually meant the enemy army, although that too could be defined in policy contexts, as had been the case against Denmark ...
It encouraged the introduction of heavy guns into field warfare, to facilitate breaking through the kinds of fixed defences the ...
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