war amongst the people and 183,
184, 236
cavalry 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28
Chinese 209
eighteenth-century Prussian 45
German 45–6, 47, 48, 50
Red Army 70, 71, 77, 83, 86
Cavan, Lord 112
CCP (Chinese Communist Party) 195,
197–200, 203, 207, 209, 211, 214
Charles, Archduke 43
Chateau-Thierry, Battle of (1918) 140
Chechin War 91
Cherniakovsky, General Ivan 83
Chiang Kai-shek 197, 200, 214
China 153, 195, 214
asymmetric warfare 196–8
border conflict with Vietnam 204–5,
212, 213, 215
civil war (1927–50) 198–200, 203, 212
domestic and natural crises 215–16
and Japan 198–9, 203, 206, 207, 208
Jiangsu-Zhejiang War (1924) 206–7
Korean War 200, 203–4, 207, 214–15
Long March (1934–5) 198
Ming dynasty (1368–1644) 196,
197, 202–3, 206, 208, 210,
211, 213
missile tests 214
mobile warfare 209–12
offence and defence 208–9
orthodox and unorthodox
strategy 201–5
positional warfare 209–10, 212
Qing dynasty 211
Sino-Indian War 200, 204, 213, 215
Sino-Soviet border war 200, 204, 213
Taiping Rebellion (1850–64) 211
Taiwan Strait crisis (1995–6) 214
technology and 205–8
theatricality in warfare 213
Tumu incident (1449) 213
uniqueness of military strategy 195,
196, 202
Warring States Periods (403–221
BC) 205–6, 209, 213
Zhili-Fengtian War (1924) 207
chivalry 206
Christensen, Thomas 197
Chuikov, Vasilii 77
Citino, Robert 36, 50
citizen armies 44
civil disobedience 178
Clark, Lieutenant General Mark 148
Clausewitz, Carl von 1–2, 15, 16, 26, 101,
111, 143, 171, 174, 202
and combined-arms warfare 21
direct approach 186
fog and friction of war 36, 40, 49
on legacy of Napoleon 67
relationship between war and policy
66, 137
strategy-tactics distinction 38–9,
102, 107
on tactics and doctrine 97
use of ‘Handeln’ 98, 99, 101
war as a duel on a large scale 23
CND (Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament) 118
Cold War 57, 87–9, 117–21, 128, 154–6
Colin, Jean 108, 109
combined-arms warfare 19–23, 155
Battle of Kursk and 80–1, 89
D-Day Landings and 148–9
debate on 116
First World War and 45
flexibility of 21, 22, 30
Italian campaign (WW2) 148
Korean War and 151
Maurice on 116
Pacific war and 149–50
Prussia and 37, 41
Soviet Union and 73, 75, 80, 85, 87
tanks and 49–50
United States and 147
command system 14, 18, 36–7, 67, 111,
117, 167, 168, 169, 177
commanders 20, 226–8, 232
acquiring enemy information 10–11
creativity of 138, 160–1, 169, 177, 227,
231, 233, 243
Israeli 188–9, 190
Manual for Commanders of Large
Units 142
and operational art 47, 97–9, 224,
229, 233
qualities and skills of 66, 104, 189
seizing the initiative 23, 28, 208–9, 211Index 261