positional warfare 209–10, 212
Powell, General Colin 157
PRC (People’s Republic of China),
seeChina
precision engagement 156, 157, 160
precision technology 182, 189
preemptive strikes 175–6, 188, 209, 226
principles of warfare 99, 100, 104, 106,
107–8, 111, 112, 113–14, 116, 122,
124–5, 129
professionalization of the military 89,
227–8
propaganda 199, 212–13, 214
‘propaganda of the deed’ 234, 236
Prussia 24–9
diplomacy 38, 39, 44, 48
Franco-Prussian War 41–2
Napoleonic Wars 24–9, 37–8, 45
need for short, decisive wars 36, 39, 41,
43, 67
railways 40, 41
Seven Years War 37
public opinion 235, 236
Gulf War 157
Vietnam War 153
Pyongyang, Battle of (1593) 203
Pyongyang, recapture of (1950) 211
al-Qaeda 159
Qi Jiguang, General 208
Qin Shihuang, Emperor 209
Rabin, Yitzhak 172, 177
radar, invention of 232
radio 12
radio communications 231
Radzievsky, General 83
RAF (Royal Air Force) 117, 124, 232
Rafah 172, 173, 176
railways 103, 231
Chinese 207
German 47
Prussian 40, 41
Russian 68
Soviet 70, 77
Rawlinson, Henry 112
rebels 211
Red Army 65, 68–9, 70
Battle of Kursk 79–81, 89, 231
Eastern Front in Second World
War 81–7
1st Ukrainian Front 82–6
German general staff assessment
of 75–6
GRU (main intelligence directorate) 79,
88, 89
as learning organization 91
mechanization 70, 71–2, 73, 78, 82, 83,
84, 85, 86, 87
Operations Uranus and Mars 76–8
purges of 73
reforms following Soviet-Finnish
war 75–6
Soviet-Finnish war (1939-40) 74–6
Stavka (headquarters of the supreme
commander) 65, 77–9, 82, 83, 84,
85, 86, 89, 90, 91,see alsoSoviet
Union
Reid, Bruce Holden 120
relay systems 12, 16–17
Richard the Lionheart 21
Richards, David 123
Riga, Battle of (1917) 46
RMA (‘revolution in military affairs’) 157,
160, 178, 187, 201
Robertson, Sir William 104, 106, 107,
112, 123
Rokossovsky, General 77, 82, 83
Roman Empire 12, 13–14, 20, 228
Rommel, Erwin 55, 76, 146–7
Ron-Tal, Yiftah 179
Rossbach, Battle of (1757) 26
Royal Navy 100, 102, 103, 106, 124–5,
141,see alsonavies
Rumania 46, 50, 68, 69, 72, 76–7, 81
Rundstedt, Gerd von 53, 55
Russia 16, 37, 46, 70, 238,see alsoSoviet
Union
Russian Revolution (1917) 64–5
Russo-Japanese War (1904–5) 64, 67–8Saddam Hussein 156, 157
St Clair, Arthur 35
St Mihiel offensive (1918) 140
SAMs (surface-to-air missiles) 181, 182
Sawyer, Samuel 218 n.23
Saxe, Marshal de 15, 20
Scharnhorst, Gerhard von 222Index 269