Index
Abu Agheila stronghold 172, 176
Academy of Military Sciences (PLA) 196
acoustic signals 11, 19
Acre, siege of (1799) 16
ACTS (Air Corps Tactical School) 144
adaptability 103, 105–6, 111, 113, 116, 123
adjutants genereaux24, 27
AEF (American Expeditionary
Force) 139–40, 141, 142
Afghanistan 91, 109, 127, 129, 130, 158,
160, 161, 237, 239
air forces 231
China 207
Israeli 171, 172, 175–6, 181, 182, 184
Luftwaffe 52, 55, 77, 79, 80, 82, 147, 148
RAF 117, 124, 232
United States 137, 146
air power 79, 80, 82–3, 85, 110, 124,
143–4, 149, 156, 174, 231–2, 232
airborne troops 71, 73, 149
aircraft 71, 140, 150
aircraft carriers 141, 144–5, 146, 232
Alexander, General Harold 148
Alexander II, Tsar 64
Alexander III, Tsar 64
Alexander the Great 10, 98
Allenby, Field Marshall Edmund 2
Amer, Abd al-Hakim 175
American Civil War (1861–5) 22, 104
amphibious operations 103, 145, 147,
148, 186
annihilation, wars of 23, 27, 48, 66–7,
70–4, 76, 84, 88, 137, 143, 212, 213
Chinese Communist 214, 215
Korean War 204
United States 151
anti-aircraft weapons system 181, 182
anti-tank weapons 80, 86, 181
armaments industry 55–6, 236
army organization 9, 10, 241
corps 19–30, 35, 104–5, 110–11, 119,
122, 123, 124, 125, 130
regimental system 116
Roman 228,see alsogeneral staff;
commanders; generalship
army size 14, 39–40, 88
ancient China 205
and conscription 104
control problem and 39, 44
growth in 18–22, 104
Gulf War 156
Israeli 177–8
post-Napoleonic 38
quantitative inferiority 168, 169, 171,
174, 177, 187
Red Army compared with the
Wehrmacht 79
United States 141
Arsouf, Battle of (1189) 21
artillery 16, 19, 20, 46–7, 89
Chinese 199, 203, 204, 206, 207, 208, 212
Egyptian 173
German 45, 46–7
and infantry 117, 142
Israeli 176, 181, 182
Red Army 68, 72, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80,
83, 85, 86, 88
in trench warfare 110
Aston, Sir George 101, 103
asymmetric warfare 196–8,see also
guerrilla warfare
atomic weapons 87, 150, 154
attrition, wars of 66, 67, 81, 130, 137, 141,
168, 178, 179, 180, 181, 212
battle of Kursk 81
Italian campaign 148
Japanese 146
and manoeuvre 119, 120, 121, 122, 125,
127, 155
United States and 122
Auftragstaktik,concept of 60 n.32, 177
Augereau, Marshal (7th Corps) 26, 28
Austerlitz, Battle of (1805) 22, 24
Austria 17, 22, 26, 39, 40–1, 44, 50, 87
Austro-Prussian War (1866) 40–1
Avant, Deborah 130, 131