Schelling, Thomas C. 154
Schlieffen, Alfred von 44–5, 52, 53, 56,
119, 171
scientific approach to warfare 35, 112, 114,
116
Scipio 13–14
Second Lebanon War (2006) 166, 167
Second Punic War (218–201 BC) 10
Second World War (1939–45) 2
Bagration and Lvov-Sandomierz
operations (1944) 81–7
Britain 115–17
Case Yellow (1940) 54–5
casualties 84, 147, 149, 150
Chindit operation (1944) 232
D-Day landings (1944) 81, 148–9
France 54–5, 81, 148–9
Italian campaign (1944) 148
Kharkov counter-offensive
(1942) 78–9
Kursk, Battle of (1943) 79–81, 89, 231
North Africa campaign 116, 117, 146–7
Operation Barbarossa (1941) 55, 56, 57,
76–8
Operation Blue (1942) 56
Operations Uranus and Mars
(1942) 76–8
Pacific offensive 87, 149–50, 232
‘phoney war’ (1939) 53–4
Polish campaign (1939) 52
production figures (Axis compared with
Allies) 145
Sicilian campaign (1943) 147–8
Soviet Union 55, 56, 76–87, 90, 91
United States and 145–50
US infantry truck companies in 46,
see also Blitzkrieg
Sedan, Battle of (1870) 43
Seeckt, General Hans von 48, 49, 52
Seoul, Battle of (1593) 203
Serbia 238
Seven Years War (1756–63) 16, 20, 37, 98
Shadmi, Colonel Yishka 173
Shaposhnikov, Marshal Boris 67, 69, 74,
75, 90
Sharon, Ariel 173, 177, 185, 186
Shlykov, Vitaly 90
shock-and-awe 49, 52, 54, 188
shock troops 46, 70
Sicily 80, 147
siege warfare 16, 19, 23, 43, 77, 108, 180,
206, 210, 213
Sierra Leone 123
Silesian Wars (1740–8) 36
Simhonni, Assaf 176
Simpkin, Richard 120, 125
Sino-Indian War (1962) 200, 204,
213, 215
Sino-Soviet border war (1969) 200,
204, 213
Slater, Sir Jock 124
smart weapons 188
Smith, General Sir Rupert 122, 223
Sokolovsky, Marshal V. D. 87
Solomon Islands 146
Somme, Battle of the (1916) 112
Soor, Battle of (1745) 36
Soubisse, Marshal 26
Soult, Marshal (4th Corps) 26, 27, 29, 31
South African War (1899–1902) 105
South Ossetia 91
Soviet Union 74, 153, 203, 206
Afghanistan and 91
border conflict with China (1969) 200,
204, 213
Cold War and 119
First World War 64–5, 68–9
German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
(1939) 52
glasnost and 89–90, 91
Great Purge and 72–3
invasion of Poland by 52
NEP and Five-Year Plans in 70–1
nuclear weapons and 87, 118, 155
Operation Barbarossa and 55, 56, 57
Operational Manoeuvre Groups
(OMGs) 89, 118, 231
planning for NATO-WTO
conflict 88–9
scientific approach to warfare 35
Second World War 55, 56, 76–87,
90, 91
Suez Canal 181
war with Finland 73–6,see alsoRed
Army
Spain 13–14
Spanish Armada (1588) 230
spies 10, 11, 14, 20270 Index