The Evolution of Operational Art. From Napoleon to the Present

‘invariably joint’, were subsumed by the ‘manoeuvrist approach’, a term coined in 1994 and adopted byBritish Defence Doctrinein ...

Concepts Centre became in 2006) to address the topic were limited to what was called a ‘Joint Doctrine Note’, published in March ...

conducted to tackle risks at their point of origin, its appearance preceded—rather than followed—the Strategic Defence Review, p ...

overlapping British doctrines being prepared in 2009 to deal with stabilization operations (the responsibility of the Developmen ...

onwards, the tempo of the enemy in Afghanistan proved faster, since he possessed both the initiative and the greater capacity fo ...

that the mental agility which ‘manoeuvrism’ contained could be exercised down to brigade level. Frequently, it had not been, oft ...

Markus Ma ̈der,In Pursuit of Conceptual Excellence: The Evolution of British Military- Strategic Doctrine in the Post–Cold War ...

Henderson,Science of War, 45. Ibid., 42. William Robertson,From Private to Field Marshal(London: Constable, 1921), 83; see also ...

J. F. C. Fuller,The Foundations of the Science of War(London: Hutchinson, 1926), 14, claims that Fuller himself was the author ...

Frank Kitson,Warfare as a Whole(London: Faber, 1987), 153–4. Christopher N. Donnelly, ‘Soviet Operational Concepts in the 1980s ...

Peter Millar, ‘The Central Region Layer Cake’, in Mackenzie and Reid (eds.),The British Army and the Operational Level of War, ...

5 American Operational Art, 1917–2008 Antulio J. Echevarria II INTRODUCTION This chapter traces the evolution of American operat ...

to apply, and when, because both of the writers mentioned above dared to violate the rules on occasion. Indeed, it is not likely ...

the respect of more experienced allies and foes. A central planning body was only established after the Spanish–American War (18 ...

AEF was deployed intact as a separate field army, and was ready for combat operations by August of 1918. Some US formations foug ...

Europe and were quite familiar with the principal ideas underpinning industrial- age warfare. The exigencies of modern warfare w ...

forcing already conservative bureaucracies to become almost miserly in terms of the number and types of programmes they would fu ...

STRONGER AT THE DECISIVE POINT’. 26 During the 1920s and 1930s, con- cepts, such as centre of gravity and culmination point, saw ...

was, in many respects, an effort to prioritize these roles and missions and to fashion them into a coherent grammar. It is an ov ...

sea- and land-based planes; otherwise, the US fleets would become dependent on land bases. However, Americans did not fully appr ...