navies:
aircraft carriers 141, 144–5, 146, 232
battleships 139, 141, 144, 145, 146, 149,
156, 231
and cannons 229–30
Chinese 216
Italian campaign (WW2) 148
Japanese imperial 141, 144, 146
Roman 229
Royal 100, 102, 103, 106, 124–5, 141
submarines 141, 144, 149
United States 137, 139, 141, 143, 144–6,
149, 197
used with land forces 230
NCW (network-centric warfare) 157, 158
Netherlands 54, 119
Ney, Marshal (6th Corps) 26, 29
NGOs (non-governmental
organizations) 235, 237
Nicholas II, Tsar 64
Niepold, Gerd 84
Nimitz, Admiral Chester 150
Northern Alliance 235
Northern Ireland 123
Norway 54
nuclear theory 2
nuclear war 234
nuclear weapons 87–9, 90, 91, 118, 150,
152, 154, 200, 207–8
O’Connor, Richard 116
offence 12, 22, 171–2, 174, 185, 208–9
officiers d’ordonance 24
Ogarkov, Marshal N. V. 88–9, 118
Olmert, Ehud 185
Operation Danny (1948) 170, 172
Operation Defensive Shield (2002)
167, 180
Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm
(1990) 156
Operation Hiram (1948) 170, 172,
174, 175
Operation Horev (1948-9) 170, 172, 173,
174, 175
Operation Litani (1978) 180, 183
Operation Yoav (1948) 170,
172, 174
operations manuals 155
optical telegraph 16–17
OSCE (Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe) 242
Osgood, Robert E. 154
Ost, Fremde Heere 75, 76
OTRI (Operational Theory Research
Institute) 166, 167, 180, 190Palazzo, Alberto 130, 131
Palestinians 178, 186, 187
Palmach (striking force) 167
panzer units 50–1, 52, 53, 54–7, 76–86,
146–7, 149,see alsotanks
paratroopers 172, 173, 177, 186
Paret, Peter 98
Paris, siege of (1870) 43
partnerships 242–3
Patton, General George S. 147,
148, 149
Paulus, Field Marshal von 78
Peace for the Galilee (1982) 180
peacekeeping operations 123, 126, 155,
215, 216
Pearl Harbor attack (7 December
1941) 144, 146
Peled, Yossi 189
Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) 10
Pershing IIs 88
Petain, Marshal Phillippe 55
Philippines 146
Ping-Jin campaign (1948) 199
piracy 208, 211, 216
PKOs,seepeacekeeping operations
PLA (People’s Liberation Army) 152, 196,
197–201, 204–5, 209, 214,
215–16
‘Chinese People’s Volunteers’
deception 203–4, 207, 211–12,
see alsoChina
Plato 24
Pliev, General 83
PLO (Palestine Liberation
Organization) 183
Poland 50, 52, 68–9, 69, 70, 84, 87
policy 66, 98, 107, 111, 115, 128, 129, 138,
142, 151
politicians 236
politics 67, 114, 118, 129, 234
Polybios 16
Pope-Hennessy, Major L. H. R. 108, 109268 Index