The Evolution of Operational Art. From Napoleon to the Present
machine-gun company, and a small motor-transport column whose ten trucks could be used to shuttle infantry forward much like the ...
possibility of a tactical breakthrough on a scale that would restore operational mobility and enable strategic objectives. 49 A ...
and weapons forward of a main line of advance, against opposition, over war- ravaged terrain. The result was stalemate, leading ...
In the winter of 1923–4, Reichswehr manoeuvres incorporated cooperation between motorized ground troops and simulated air forces ...
in Germany is that tanks were added to existing doctrines and embryonic force structures that stressed not only the combination, ...
The panzers were neither a direct descendant of Moltke’s and Schlieffen’s concepts of operational art nor an instrument directly ...
writing, not in a specific sense, but to refer to the kind of quick, complete victory that was at the heart of the army’s operat ...
reduced by a third to facilitate control. The major issue, however, involved armour’s use in the coming campaign against the Wes ...
the campaign’s focal point. Broken terrain made the option a risk—but a calcu- lated risk, taking maximum advantage of the princ ...
Instead, the Germans fought their way across the Meuse against second-line French troops whose tactics and commanders, rather th ...
capacity, and policy decisions that spread available resources across the military spectrum. The second factor was a strategic p ...
firewalls. The Ardennes in 1944 and Hungary in 1945 wereFahrten ins Blaue, military excursions to nowhere in particular with no ...
tactics that could expand and extend wars, but could not win them. War may be an art form, but if one’sme ́tieris painting minia ...
(Oxford: Osprey, 1993), introduce a campaign neglected by military and academic writers for over a century. Gordon A. Craig, ‘P ...
109–33; and Hermann Rahne, Mobilmachung (East Berlin: Milita ̈rverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1983), 52ff., are g ...
born: Scho ̈ningh, 2006), especially Gerhard P. Gross, ‘There Was a Schlieffen Plan. Neue Quellen’, 117–60. Stig Fo ̈rster, ‘De ...
Karl-Volker Neugebauer, ‘Operatives Denken zwischen dem Ersten und Zweiten Weltkrieg’, inOperatives Denken und Handeln, 97–122. ...
Period of the War on the Eastern Front, 22 June–August 1941(London: Frank Cass, 1993), is an anthology with a wealth of detailed ...
3 The Tsarist and Soviet Operational Art, 1853–1991 Jacob W. Kipp INTRODUCTION The origins of operational art in Russia are clos ...
revolution bringing an end to the dynasty. Socio-economic collapse followed. This presented the opportunity for a small party of ...
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