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"... an anthology of essays by historians and scholars who trace the origin and development of the operational level of warfare, the critical link between strategy and tactics." -- Fore., John S. Brown, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.) Chief of Military History

" ... a unique study in the field of military history ... This study deals only with land warfare and is designed to show the doctrinal development and application of operational art in modern history. " -- Pref. by the editors, p. v

Includes bibliographical references and index

Operational art's origin / Bruce W. Menning -- Part One: France. -- Introduction -- Napoleon, operational art, and the Jena Campaign / David G. Chandler -- French operational art : 1888-1940 / Robert A. Doughty -- Part Two: Germany. -- Moltke and the origins of the operational level of war / Michael D. Krause -- Operational thought from Schlieffen to Manstein / Günter R. Roth -- Panzer-group Kleist and the breakthrough in France, 1940 / Karl-Heinz Frieser -- Part Three: Russia and the Soviet Union. -- The imperial Russian legacy of operational art, 1878-1914 / Bruce W. Menning -- The Origins of Soviet operational art, 1917-1936 / Jacob W. Kipp -- Soviet operational art since 1936 : the triumph of maneuver war / Dsvid M. Glantz -- Soviet operational logistics, 1939-1990 / Graham H. Turbiville, Jr. -- Part Four. The United States. -- The Orgins of operational art / Harold W. Nelson -- Operational art and the Gettysburg campaign / Arthur W. Grant -- Normandy to Falaise : a critique of allied operational planning in 1944 / Russell F. Weighley -- After Inchon : MacArthur's 1950 campaign in North Korea / Stanlis David Milkowski -- The maturation of operational art : Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm / John S. Brown -- Afterword

xi, 505 p. : 23 cm

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