In Pursuit of Military Excellence: The Evolution of Operational TheoryRoutledge, 2013 M04 3 - 424 pages This book offers a scientific interpretation of the field of military knowledge situated between strategy and tactics, better known as operational art', and traces the evolution of operational awareness and its culmination in a full-fledged theory. The author, a Brigadier General (ret.) in the Israeli Defence Forces and Doctor of History, King's College, London, clarifies the substance of operational art' and constructs a cognitive framework for its critical analysis. He chronicles the stages in the evolution of operational theory from the emergence of 19th-century military thought to Blitzkrieg. For the first time the Soviet theories of Deep Operations' and Strike Manoeuvre' that emerged in the 1920s and 1930 are discussed. The author argues that it is these doctrines that eventually led to the crystallization of the American Airland Battle theory, successfully implemented in the Gulf War. |
Contents
| 1 | |
2 Mass and Operational Art The Theoretical Dichotomy in NineteenthCentury Military Thought | 30 |
3 Destruction and Operational Art The Roots of Ignorance | 70 |
4 The Blitzkrieg Concept A Mechanized Manipulation of Tactical Patterns | 105 |
5 The Evolution of Soviet Operational Thought | 164 |
6 The Deep Operation Theory Glubokaia operatsiia | 209 |
7 From Tactical Destruction to Operational Manoeuvre The Conceptual Revolution in American Military Thought | 250 |
8 From Central Battle to Airland Battle | 287 |
Operation Desert Storm | 323 |
Bibliography | 332 |
Index | 393 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abteilung Airland Battle doctrine approach armed forces armii armoured Army Group Army Group Centre aspects attack attrition B.H. Liddell Hart basic Battlefield Blitzkrieg breakthrough Caemmerer campaign cavalry centre Clausewitz combat combined conduct context corps Deep Operation defensive depth desant destruction dynamic echelon element entire fighting FM 100-5 Operations formations formulation Fort Monroe forward detachment German Guderian Hitler Ibid idea idem infantry initial Isserson Kadishev Liddell Hart Lind linear logic London Maneuver Warfare mass mechanical Military Review military thought mission mobility Modern Armies Moreover Moscow Nature of Operations offensive opera Operational Art operational command operational level operational manoeuvre operational shock operational theory Operations of Modern operativnogo iskusstva operatsii patterns principle Razvitie Red Army rival system RKKA Russian Schlieffen Schlieffen Plan Soviet Staff Starry strike synchronization synergy tactical Taktika tank Tankovye term theoretical theoreticians tion tional TRADOC trend Triandafillov Tukhachevskii udar Voina Voprosy strategii warfare Wehrmacht