The Evolution of Operational Art. From Napoleon to the Present

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IGOs (intergovernmental
organizations) 235, 237
India:
Sino-Indian War (1962) 200, 204,
213, 215
terrorism in Mumbai 240
Industrial Revolution 17, 39, 66, 171
industrial war 64, 66, 89–90, 91, 141, 223,
234, 235, 236, 239, 241
industrialization 73, 90, 91, 231
infantry 19, 20, 21, 29
air power and 232
ancient Chinese 209
and artillery 117, 142
Chinese 204, 207, 209, 212
German 45–6, 49–50, 53, 55
Israeli 170
mechanized 72
mounted 70, 75
Prussian 36, 38, 44
Red Army 71, 72, 75, 77, 80, 86
tanks and 116
United States 140, 149
information 10–14, 28, 29, 238, 239, 243
‘directed telescope’ 24, 27, 30
Napoleonic Wars 25, 32
transmitting 16–17,see also
communications; intelligence
information technology 157, 160, 201
Inge, Peter 120, 121
initiative 23, 28, 121, 208–9, 211, 229
insurgency 2, 137, 158–9, 182, 211,see also
counter–insurgency
intelligence 20, 92 n.27, 120, 226, 228
Israeli 179
Napoleonic wars 23
radio communication and 231
Red Army 77
Second World War 54
spies 10, 11, 14, 20
UN 151
intifadas 179, 180, 182, 183–4
Iraq 127, 129, 130, 160, 239
Gulf War (1990–1) 122, 124, 156–8
invasion of (2003) 126, 137, 158, 159
Iron, Richard 131 n.1
irregular warfare 97, 106–7, 119, 137, 158,
see alsoguerrilla warfare
Irwin, Sir Alistair 123, 129, 131 n.1


ISAF (International Security Assistance
Force) 237
Israel:
intifadas against 179, 180, 182, 183–4
October War (1973) 175, 177, 178, 181,
185–6, 187
post-heroic warfare 183–4, 190
quantitative inferiority 168, 169, 171,
172, 174, 177, 187
Second Lebanon War 166, 167, 179,
180, 182, 184, 187, 188, 189
Sinai War (1956) 169, 170, 172, 174,
175, 176
Six-Day War (1967) 170, 171,
173, 174–5
War of Attrition (1969-70) 180, 181
War of Independence (1948-9) 166,
169, 170, 171, 172, 174, 189
Italy 81, 148

Japan 72, 87, 149–50, 232
attack on Pearl Harbor (1941) 144, 146
and China 198–9, 203, 206, 207, 208
Jellicoe, John 125
Jena-Auerstadt, Battle of (1806) 28–9, 31
Jervis, Jervis W. 100
Jian Zemin 214
Johnson, President Lyndon 153
Johnson, Sir Garry 123
Johnson, Spencer 189
joint operations 121, 124–7, 137, 159, 230,
232, 236, 241
Jomini, Henri Antoine 1–2, 27, 98, 99,
100, 101–1, 111, 112, 174,
191 n.20, 202
Jordan 169, 174, 178
Josephus, Flavius 228
Julius Caesar 11, 16
Jutland, Battle of (1916) 125

Kahn, Herman 154
Kasserine Pass, Battle of (1943) 146–7
Kerensky Offensive (1917) 68
Kiggell, Sir Lancelot 101
Kiszely, Sir John 131 n.1
Kitson, Sir Frank 118, 126
KMT (Kuomintang) 197, 198, 199
Kokoshin, A. A. 81, 89
Kolin, Battle of (1757) 37

Index 265
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