The Evolution of Operational Art. From Napoleon to the Present
of heavy blows; it is not entirely clear, therefore, how often operational art actually equates to art, rather than something mo ...
forces were inexperienced and overly aggressive, falling for the German tactic of baiting-and-running, inviting opposing armour ...
manoeuvre. Air–ground cooperation still required work, but the victories in Tunisia and Sicily had given the Americans much-need ...
forces. Some 4,000 ships and landing vessels transported nearly 176,000 troops and materiel across the English Channel to breach ...
MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz continued to close the ring around Japan, bypassing a number of the strategically insignifi ...
army demobilized from eight million men and eighty-nine divisions to less than 600,000 and ten under-strength divisions; most un ...
Contrary to the popular view, the US military did give considerable attention to studying war’s second grammar in the form of a ...
‘brush-fire wars’. 59 Military doctrine retained many of the concepts used in the Second World War and the Korean conflict. The ...
Although the US military encountered a second grammar of war during this conflict, it left that grammar behind, eagerly turning ...
In fact, there was a real possibility that weapons of mass destruction might be used in the next war; so both civilian schools o ...
else, received little attention during the Cold War, since they would have taken valuable training time and other resources away ...
General Colin Powell recommended halting the advance, and President Bush agreed. A peace agreement was signed, but—in an oversig ...
colleges. Finally, the commander of US Joint Forces Command killed the concept in August 2008, arguing, rightly, that it ran cou ...
summer of 2003, the basic symptoms were essentially recognized by American leaders, though not uniformly. Still, the US military ...
America’s experience in the Vietnam conflict called that assumption into ques- tion. Although it won many battles, almost all of ...
do with effectiveness. Art is, by definition, creative; but appreciating it is merely a matter of taste. For parts of the twenti ...
Timothy K. Nenninger, ‘American Military Effectiveness in the First World War’, in Allan R. Millet and Williamson Murray (eds.) ...
Alan R. Millet, ‘Assault from the Sea: The Development of Amphibious Warfare between the Wars’, inMilitary Innovation, 50–95. J ...
Bernard Brodie,The Absolute Weapon(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1946). Robert E. Osgood,Limited War: The Challenge to American Str ...
US Joint Chiefs of Staff,Joint Vision 2010(Washington, DC: GPO, 1996);Joint Vision 2020 (Washington, DC: GPO, 2000). Admiral Bi ...
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