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Author : Ash Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Levels of War, Operational Art and Campaign Planning written by Ash Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Andreas Olsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199599483
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Operational Art written by John Andreas Olsen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadly defined as the grey area between strategy and tactics, operational art spans the theory and practice of planning and conducting campaigns and major operations aimed at accomplishing strategic and operational objectives in a given theatre of operations. An intermediate link between strategy and tactics has always existed, but a distinct concept that encompasses a systematic and deliberate plan of campaign for major operations is a mere two hundred years old. Based on country specific case-studies, this book describes how the concepts that underpin operational art originated, how they received practical expression in various campaigns, and how they developed over time. The point of departure is the campaigns of 'the God of War', Napoleon Bonaparte. The book then proceeds with chapters on the evolution of operational art in Prussia / Germany, the Soviet Union / Russia, the United Kingdom, United States, Israel, and China. The final chapter deals with the future of operational art in irregular warfare. Theory is critical to refining and improving existing methods of applying operational warfare, and its importance cannot be overstated; however, to be useful, theory and its accompanying vocabulary must be combined with a proper examination of historical trends and practical experience. The present volume attempts to achieve that combination. This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Application of Operational Design at the Tactical Level of War: Implications and Recommendations written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operational Art and Operational Design must be understood and applied at both the operational and tactical levels of war during counterinsurgency operations. While doctrine prescribes the tactical commander must understand operational art, it also retains its application within the purview of the operational level commander. Additionally, while current and evolving counterinsurgency doctrine reinforce the need for a specific view of operational design when applied specifically to a counterinsurgency campaign, it still retains that campaign planning and design exist at the operational level and above. This paper will assert the need for tactical level commanders' sound application of operational design when planning for protracted counterinsurgency operations within the context of a higher strategic and operational campaign plan. While doctrine states that there is only one campaign plan, current operations clearly show the need for tactical commanders to think with a campaign plan mindset when approaching their tactical planning. In conclusion, it will provide "a way" for tactical commanders to think about and apply the elements of operational design to better focus their efforts upon assumption of an area of responsibility within a COIN environment.
Author : Brett Friedman
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 168247707X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)
Download or read book On Operations written by Brett Friedman and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level of war and operational art from the Napoleonic Wars to today, viewing them through the lens of Prussia/Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States. B. A. Friedman concludes that the operational level of war should be rejected as fundamentally flawed, but that operational art is an accurate description of the activities of the military staff, an organization developed to provide the brainpower necessary to manage the complexity of modern military operations. Rather than simply serve as an intercession between levels, the military staff exists as an enabler and supporting organization to tacticians and strategists alike. On Operations examines the organization of military staffs, which has changed little since Napoleon’s time. Historical examinations of the functions staffs provided to commanders, and the disciplines of the staff officers themselves, leads to conclusions about how best to organize staffs in the future. Friedman demonstrates these ideas through case studies of historical campaigns based on the military discipline system developed.
Author : Michael G. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (194 download)
Download or read book The Operational Level of War written by Michael G. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The operational level of war and military campaigning are becoming central themes in the U.S. Army's doctrinal architecture. The parameters of the operational art and the fundamentals of campaign planning are increasingly subjects of intense military debate. Unfortunately, our focus upon battlefield techniques and military generation that has given little thought to these subjects. THis study provides a brief introduction to the operational level of war for students new to these discussions. The intent is to introduce the reader to a number of key operational terms, the role of operational level of war commander, and the fundamentals of campaign planning.
Author : John A. Warden, III
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788108093
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book The Air Campaign written by John A. Warden, III and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first analyses of the pure art of planning the aerial dimensions of war. Explores the complicated connection between air superiority and victory in war. Focuses on the use of air forces at the operational level in a theater of war. Presents fascinating historical examples, stressing that the mastery of operational-level strategy can be the key to winning future wars. 20 photos. Bibliography.
Author : Jeffrey M. Reilly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Operational Design written by Jeffrey M. Reilly and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Justin Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584874027
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Alien written by Justin Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1982 Army Field Manual (FM) 100-5, Operations, introduced the idea of an operational level of war encompassing the planning and conduct of campaigns and major operations. The introduction of the term "operational art" three years later was, in practice, the skillful management of the operational level of war. Identifiably separate levels of war defined the jurisdiction of the profession of arms and was, for a number of historical and cultural reasons, attractive to U.S. practitioners and plausible to its English-speaking allies. The authors argue that as warfare continues to diffuse across definitional and conceptual boundaries, the close orchestration of all instruments of national power becomes even more important, which cripples the current conception of campaigns and operations. The authors propose that responsibility for campaign design should "actually" return to the political-strategic leadership of nations supported by the entirety of the state bureaucracy. This would mark the return of the campaign to its historical sources. If the United States and its allies fail to make this change, they risk continuing to have a "way of battle" rather than a "way of war."
Author : Michael R. Matheny
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080618597X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Carrying the War to the Enemy written by Michael R. Matheny and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military commanders turn tactics into strategic victory by means of "operational art," the knowledge and creative imagination commanders and staff employ in designing, synchronizing, and conducting battles and major operations to achieve strategic goals. Until now, historians of military theory have generally agreed that modern operational art developed between the first and second world wars, not in the United States but in Germany and the Soviet Union, whose armies were supposedly the innovators and greatest practitioners of operational art. Some have even claimed that U.S. forces struggled in World War II because their commanders had no systematic understanding of operational art. Michael R. Matheny believes previous studies have not appreciated the evolution of U.S. military thinking at the operational level. Although they may rightly point to the U.S. Army's failure to modernize or develop a sophisticated combined arms doctrine during the interwar years, they focus too much on technology or tactical doctrine. In his revealing account, Matheny shows that it was at the operational level, particularly in mounting joint and combined operations, that senior American commanders excelled—and laid a foundation for their country's victory in World War II. Matheny draws on archival materials from military educational institutions, planning documents, and operational records of World War II campaigns. Examining in detail the development of American operational art as land, sea, and air power matured in the twentieth century, he shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S. war colleges educated and trained commanders during the interwar years specifically for the operational art they employed in World War II. After 1945, in the face of nuclear warfare, the American military largely abandoned operational art. But since the Vietnam War, U.S. commanders have found operational art increasingly important as they pursue modern global and expeditionary warfare requiring coordination among multiple service branches and the forces of allied countries.
Author : G. S. Isserson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989137232
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Operational Art written by G. S. Isserson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915745
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Operational Level of War written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Major Thomas M. Jordan
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782899766
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Operational Commander’s Role In Planning And Executing A Successful Campaign written by Major Thomas M. Jordan and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of industrialization coupled with the growth of technology have contributed to creating a complexity to modern warfare that far exceeds the primitive conditions of earlier periods. Defined as the creative use of distributed operations for the purposes of strategy, success at the operational level requires that commanders practice operational art. Although current doctrine recognizes that the operational commander must link theater strategy to tactical operations through operational art, it fails to provide an adequate description of the commander role in campaign planning. Thus, this monograph examines the operational commander’s role in planning and executing a successful campaign. The monograph begins by describing how industrialized societies and technology affected the evolution of warfare thus creating a new medium known as operational art. Next it discusses suitable criteria for determining the commander’s role in operational campaigns followed by an explanation of the campaign analysis model consisting of the operational operating systems described in TRADOC Pam 11-9. The monograph then analyzes three successful campaigns: Field-Marshal Slim as the 14th Army commander in Burma; General MacArthur in the World War II Cartwheel Operation and General Ridgway as the 8th Army commander in Korea.
Author : Major Chas. J. Smith
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786253615
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Elements Of Operational Design In The Planning For The Marianas Campaign In 1944 written by Major Chas. J. Smith and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operational art and the operational level of war became a doctrinal focus for the U.S. Army in the 1980s. This focus led to the development of the elements of operational design. These concepts are not new, and were developed in the interwar period prior to World War II at the staff and war colleges. During this time, however, the military did not doctrinally recognize the operational level or war or operational art. Even though the concepts were not recognized, the intellectual process permeated the officer education system prior to World War II. Clearly, American officers in World War II used something of operational art, including in the planning and execution of the Marianas Campaign. This monograph looks at the question in more detail, by testing the extent to which planners within CENPAC used the elements of operational design in the Marianas Campaign, including end state and objectives, effects, center(s) of gravity, decisive points, direct and indirect action, lines of operation, operational reach, simultaneity and depth, timing and tempo, leverage, balance, anticipation, culmination, and arranging operations. The implication of this study is that as current doctrine evolves, the development, education, and execution of operational concepts in the World War II era continue to be useful.
Author : John A. Warden III
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782898824
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Air Campaign: Planning For Combat written by John A. Warden III and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the short history of air warfare, no nation with superior air forces has ever lost a war to the force of enemy arms. Air superiority by itself, however, no longer guarantees victory. This book, one of the first analyses of the pure art of planning the aerial dimension of war, explores the complicated connection between air superiority and victory in war. In The Air Campaign, Colonel John A. Warden III focuses on the use of air forces at the operational level in a theater of war. The most compelling task for the theater commander, he argues, is translating national war objectives into tactical plans at operational levels. He presents his case by drawing on fascinating historical examples, stressing that the mastery of operational-level strategy can be the key to winning future wars. Colonel Warden shows us how to use air power more effectively-through rough mass, concentration, and economy of forces-because, he warns, the United States no longer holds an edge in manpower, production capacity, and technology. Simply put, an air force inferior in numbers must fight better and smarter to win. This book offers planners greater understanding of how to use air power for future air campaigns against a wide variety of enemy capabilities in a wide variety of air operations. As the reader will see, the classic principles of war also apply to air combat. One of the author's important contributions is to demonstrate that perception to those whose grave responsibility one day may be to plan and carry through a victorious air campaign.
Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313023387
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Operational Art written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-09-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work considers the modern antecedants and evolution of the operational art in military thought and practice in both peace and wartime. This theme is developed over time and across military cultures. A comparative framework allows the treatment of the overall theme by examining the concept of the operational art in the context of different nationalities, different military organizations, and different societies. This study situates the current operational art in its historical context.
Author : Vasiliĭ Efimovich Savkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Basic Principles of Operational Art and Tactics written by Vasiliĭ Efimovich Savkin and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry R. Yarger
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428916229
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Strategic Theory for the 21st Century: The Little Book on Big Strategy written by Harry R. Yarger and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
