The Evolution of Operational Art. From Napoleon to the Present

Van Creveld, Martin 177, 179
Van Dyke, Carl 75
Varfolomeev, N. 65, 69–70
Vasilevsky, Aleksandr 76, 77, 78, 79,
80, 82
Vatutin, General 77
Verdun, Battle of (1916) 47
Vernichtungsschlacht 47
Versailles, Treaty of (1919) 48
victory 212, 215
Vietnam-Chinese border conflict
(1979) 204–5, 212, 213
Vietnam War (1965–73) 119, 122, 130,
152–4, 160
Vilnai, Matan 182, 189
visual signals 11–12, 19
Voroshilov, Klenemtii 73, 74
Voroshilov, Narkomo 72, 73

Waffen SS 55
Wang Naiming, Colonel 209
Wang Zhen 213
war:
amongst the people 223, 233–41
first grammar of 137–8, 142, 151,
154–5, 157, 158, 160, 161, 223
indirect approach to 115, 126, 172–3,
174, 184, 185–6, 201–2
second grammar of 137, 152, 154, 158,
159, 160, 223
war games 119, 143, 145
War of Independence (1948) 166, 169,
170, 171, 172, 174, 189

War of the Austrian Succession

(1740–48) 36

War of the Spanish Succession (1714) 16

Warden III, Colonel John A. 156,

164 n.77

Wars of German Unification 101, 109

Waterloo, Battle of (1815) 38

weapons of mass destruction 155, 160

Wellington, Duke of 38

Wesphalia, Treaty of (1648) 1

William, King 40

Wilson, President Woodrow 140

Xu Shiyou, General 204

Yadin, Yigael 174

Yair, Yoram 184, 186

Yang Dezhi, General 204

Yeltsin, Boris 91

Yoffe, Abraham 173

Yongle, Emperor 206

Yugoslavia 55

Zabecki, David 47

Zakharov, Georgiy 83

Zhadov, General 86

Zheng, Admiral 197

Zhengtong, Emperor 213

Zhuge Liang 196, 202

Zhukov, Georgy 76, 77, 78, 79, 80,

82, 87

Zorea, Meir 171

Zuber, Terence 60 n.40

Index 273