Staff College, Camberely 100, 101, 104,
105, 106, 107–8, 120, 121, 123, 125,
126, 127, 128, 131
staff colleges, USA 142
Stalin, Joseph 70, 71, 72–3, 78, 84
battle of Stalingrad 76, 77
capture of Berlin 87
Soviet-Finnish war 73–4, 75
total war 90, 91
Stalingrad, Battle of (1942) 76–8
storm troops 46, 70
strategic culture 99, 100, 101, 102–3
strategic pauses 198, 214–15
strategy 9, 35, 36, 38–9, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45,
56, 128, 222, 226, 227, 228, 233, 236
Clausewitz on 38–9, 102, 107
Continentalism 102–3, 110, 122
definition of 230–1
diplomacy and 103
doctrine and 97
First World War 110
Fuller on 114
grand 36, 111, 114, 115, 167, 180, 230
Hamley on 101
Henderson on 102, 103
Mao Zedong on 201
Maurice on 102
Moltke on 43
and operational art 91, 101–2, 119
orthodox and unorthodox 201–5
of provocation 234
Schlieffen on 44
Svechin on 65–7
uniqueness of Chinese 195, 196, 202
United States 142–3
universalism of 195
in Vietnam 153
strategy and tactics 1, 38–9, 43, 56, 65, 97,
101, 104, 107, 115, 227, 228, 232,
233, 236, 243
strategy by stratagem 196
Stu ̈rmer, Michael 44
submarines:
in First World War 141, 144
United States 144, 149
Suez Canal 173, 176, 177, 178, 181, 182,
185, 187
Sun Tzu (Sun Zi) 172, 175, 186, 195, 196,
201, 202, 208, 210, 229
surprise 73, 80, 108, 112, 115, 121, 126,
130, 186, 187, 188, 226
Chinese 202, 203, 204, 210
strategic 185
theatricality in warfare 213,see also
preemptive strikes; deception
Svechin, Aleksandr A. 65–9, 73, 91
‘swarming’ 187, 188
symbolism 214, 240
Syria 174, 175, 178, 186tactics 9, 15, 29, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 43, 44,
45, 46, 49, 55, 56, 57, 226, 227, 228
American study of 138
art of battle 222
Battle of Jutland 125
British army 97, 103–4, 116, 118, 129
Brusilov and 68
definition of 230–1
doctrine and 97, 104
Fuller on 114
grand 98, 100, 101, 102, 115, 128, 230
Hundred Years War 13
Israeli 167
Maurice on 102, 113
Moltke and 39–40
Napoleon and 98
placed above strategy 142
storm-troop 46–7
Svechin on 65
of the three arms combined 101, 102,
104, 108, 110,see alsostrategy
and tactics
Taiwan 200, 211, 214
Taliban 158, 235
tanks 72, 89
advocates of 112, 116
American 145, 147, 148
breakout from Normandy by 149
British 116
cardboard decoy 143
at El Alamein 76
First World War 47, 140
Fuller on 112
Germains on 116
German 79, 85
Gulf War 156
Israeli 171–2, 173, 176, 181, 185
at Kasserine Pass 146–7Index 271