The Evolution of Operational Art. From Napoleon to the Present

Konev, Ivan 82, 84–5, 86, 87
Ko ̈nniggra ̈tz, Battle of (1866) 40–1
Kopytko, General-Major 87
Korea 203, 206
Korean War (1950–3) 35, 150–2, 200,
211–12, 214–15
Kosovo conflict (1998–9) 157, 238
Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong) 211
Krushchev, Nikita 77, 87
Kuhn, Thomas 30
Kuropatkin, General 67
Kursk, Battle of (1943) 79–81, 89, 231

Lannes, Marshal (5th Corps) 26, 27
Lao Tzu 32
Larionov, General-Major V. V. 89
Lashevich, M. M. 70
Laskov, Haim 170
leadership 156, 226, 227, 233
Lebanon 166, 167, 179, 180, 182, 183, 184,
187, 188, 189
Leipzig, Battle of (1813) 39
Leliushenko, General 86
Lenin, Vladimir 70, 72
Leuctra, Battle of (371 BC) 21
Li Rusong 203
Liao-Shen campaign (1948) 199
LICs (low-intensity conflict) 121, 123,
167, 168, 171, 178–80, 183,
185, 190
Liddell Hart, Basil H. 53, 103, 104, 111,
115, 116, 120
indirect approach 115, 126, 172, 174,
184, 186
logic of dispersion 191 n.20
limited war theory 121, 152, 154
linear integration system 171
Liu Huaqing, Admiral 197
Liu Zhen, General 207
Livy 10
Lloyd, Henry 98–9
Lobositz, Battle of (1756) 37
logistics 15, 25, 67, 70, 81–2, 101, 111, 141,
179, 226, 231, 233
ancient Chinese 210
centralized 188
decentralized 176
focused 157
inertia 232

Israeli 176

Korean War 207, 212

mobile warfare and 212

operational art and 222–3

railroads and 40, 41

Red Army and 69

United States 139

Longstreet, James 39

Louis, King of Holland 25, 31

low-intensity conflicts,seeLICs

Ludendorff, Erich 47, 53

Luttwak, Edward 172

MacArthur, General Douglas 149–50, 151

Mackenzie, Jeremy 123

McNamara, Robert 152–3

Ma ̈der, Markus 97

Mahan, Alfred Thayer 139, 141, 144

Mamontov, General K. K. 70

managerial approach to war 35, 111

Manchuria 67–8, 87, 151, 211

manoeuvre 41, 140, 146, 157

as antidote to intrenchment 107

attrition and 119, 120, 121, 122, 125–6,

127, 155

British army 120

favourable conditions for 170–3

firepower and 39, 41, 167, 168, 169,

181–3, 190

flanking 39–40, 42, 44, 49, 50, 77

Israeli use of 174

Italian campaign (WW2) 148

LICs and 178–9

Napoleon and 23, 28, 105

with panache 36

Prussian concept of 35–7, 42, 44

United States 140, 145, 146, 148, 157,

158, 160

manoeuvrism 124, 127, 129, 131

Manstein, Erich von 53–4, 57, 77, 78–9,

79, 80, 81

Mantinea, Battle of (362 BC) 115

Mao Zedong 196, 197, 198, 200, 201, 202,

207, 209, 211, 212, 214

maps 14, 16, 25

Marengo, Battle of (1800) 11

Marlborough, Duke of 15

Marshall, George G. 143

Marxism-Leninism 35

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