Maurice, Sir Frederick (1871–1951)
113–14, 115–16
Maurice, Sir John Frederick
(1841–1912) 101, 102
mechanization 46, 47, 48–50, 89, 116
Red Army 70, 71–2, 73, 78, 82, 83, 84,
85, 86, 87
Tukhachevsky on 71–2
media 235, 240
medical service 20
Meretskov, General 74, 75
messengers 12, 19, 20
Metz, siege of (1870) 42–3
Meuse-Argonne offensive (1918) 140
militarization 70, 71, 73
military discipline 228
military education 120, 142, 166, 188,
189, 190
military exercises 214, 216
military genius 98, 227
military history 120
Millar, Peter 124
Milne, Sir George 113, 114, 116
Milosovic, President 238
Minsk offensive (1944) 82–4
Mitla Pass, Sinai 172, 173, 177, 182
mobile warfare 209–12
mobility 112, 113, 114, 121, 125, 153, 155,
170, 182, 185, 211, 231
mobilization 44, 90, 142, 160
Chinese 200
cost of mass 234
Israeli 188
leve ́e en masse18–19
precision-strike weapons making
redundant mass 89
railways and 40, 41
Soviet 69, 73
tsarist Russia 68
United States 139, 145, 152
Model, General Walter 76, 79, 80, 84
Mofaz, Shaul 183, 189
Moffett, William A. 143
Mollwitz, battle of (1741) 36
Moltke, Helmuth von 2, 38–9, 42, 45, 56,
67, 109, 119, 171
Austro-Prussian War (1866) 40–1
‘Essay on Strategy’ 43–4
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1) 41–3
genesis of operational art 38–43
Mongols 12, 206, 208, 213
Monte Casino, Battle of (1944) 148
Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard 76,
117, 147, 148
MOOTW (military operations other
than war) 155, 160
mountainous-terrain warfare 174, 175,
182, 185, 204
multinational coalitions 235, 237, 241,
242–3
Murat, Marshal Joachim 22, 24, 25, 27,
28, 29
My Lai massacre (1969) 153Nagasaki, atomic bombing of (1945) 150
Nagl, John 130, 131
Napier, General Sir William 99
Napoleon I, Emperor 1, 67, 98, 101, 231
character and qualities of 17–18, 30, 31
corps d’arme ́esystem and 20–4
historians’ critical assessment of 30–1
Hundred Days of 38
imperial headquarters of 23–4
on importance of logistics 210
information 10, 16, 17, 24
and interchangeability of weapons/
ammunition 16
manoeuvre and battle 23, 28, 105
maxims of 11, 23, 185, 210
number of sieges conducted by 23
principles of command 109
Prussian campaign 25–9
Napoleonic Wars (1803–15) 1, 21–30,
37–9, 45, 99
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty
Organization) 2, 57, 88,
89, 119, 120, 153, 155, 235,
236, 242
Afghanistan 237
ARRC (Ace Rapid Reaction Corps) 123
definition of doctrine 97
Kosovo 238
operational art 128
post-Cold War strategy 121–2
war games 118
weapons of mass destruction 155
Yugoslavia 91
Naveh, Shimon 166Index 267