The Evolution of Operational Art. From Napoleon to the Present

‘uncivilized’ 106, 107, 112–13
engineers 20, 102
Epaminondas 115
Eremenko, Andrei 77
EU (European Union) 237, 242
expeditionary warfare 55, 108, 109, 110,
127, 139–40, 141, 142

Falkenhayn, Erich von 47
Farndale, Martin 120
Fergusson, James 130
Field Service Regulations(1909) 108–9,
110, 111, 114, 122, 124, 128
Part I: Operations97, 101, 105–6
Part II: Organization and
Administration105, 107
postwar revisions of 112–13
Field Service Regulations, Part III: Higher
Formations(1935) 113
Fingerspitzengefu ̈lconcept 35–6
Finland, war with Soviet Union
(1939–40) 73–6
firepower 41, 44–5, 110, 130, 238, 239, 243
decentralized 111
defence and 185
First World War 46, 117
growing effect of 39
Gulf War 156
Israeli 170
and manoeuvre 39, 41, 167, 168, 169,
181–3, 190
mobility and 155
NATO 118
Second World War 148
technology 153, 181
first strike 175–6, 188, 209, 226
First World War (1914–18) 2, 45–8
Battle of Jutland 125
Britain 96, 109–15
Germany 45–8
Hamley’s book and 101
lessons learnt from 111–15, 143
operational art 9
Russia 64–5, 68–9
United States 139–41, 143
Fisher, Admiral Jackie 103
flexibility 67, 103, 105, 106, 111–17, 120,
126, 131, 152, 157, 178
F-117 stealth fighters 156

force multipliers 157, 158, 167, 168, 169,

171–6, 184–8, 190

force-to-space ratios 130, 170, 182

fortifications 23, 130, 208, 209–10

Foucalt, Michel 234

France 39, 175

Chappe system of optical telegraphs 17

corps d’arme ́esystem in 19–21

doctrine 109

First World War 140

and Germany 44–5

Hundred Years War 12–13

Instructional provisoire du 6 Octobre

1921146

leve ́e en masse18–19

light mechanized divisions 50

and Russia 64, 68

Second World War 54–5, 81, 148–9

Seven Years War 37

war with Prussia 2, 41–3, 119

Franco-Prussian War (1870–1) 2,

41–3, 119

Frederick, Crown Prince 41

Frederick Charles, Prince 41

Frederick the Great 14, 23, 26, 36–7, 39

Frederick William III, King 24, 26

Freiburg 21, 22

French, Sir John 101

French Revolution (1789) 1, 16

French Revolutionary Wars

(1792–1802) 16, 18–19, 37, 98

Fu Zuoyi, General 203

Fuller, J. F.C. 53, 71, 109, 111, 112, 114–15,

116, 120, 126, 170

Fulton, Robert 30

Gal, Reuven 191 n.27

Gamelin, Maurice 55

Gareev, General Makhmut 84, 89

Gaza Strip 173

general staff 67

British 97, 104, 105–9, 112, 113, 114,

116, 120, 123

German 75–6

Israeli 189

Soviet 74, 75, 79, 81–2, 88, 89, 90

tsarist Russia 64

generalship 97–8, 189, 197

British 97, 104, 114, 121

Index 263