Descriptive narrative of the war in Italy in 1859 from April to August of that year. The author states "it is a carefully-drawn picture of the Campaign as it presents itself to the mind of the author now, when he has had opportunity to revisit the...
This paper involves an in-depth study of the art of command at all three levels of warfare. It examines this art through the eyes of one of Napoleon's ablest Marshals, Louis N. Davout. The paper addresses and accomplishes three primary goals....
This monograph is a campaign analysis of the operations on the Italian Front during World War I. The focus of the monograph is to determine if operational art was practiced by the belligerents from the time of Italy's entry into the war in May of...
The monograph analyzes maneuver and proposes these questions. What is maneuver? What is maneuver, in the Joint Vision (JV) 2010 sense, and what makes it dominant? To answer these questions, the monograph studies three stages in the evolution of...
Department of Military Art, U.S. Infantry and Cavalry School; Wagner, Arthur L.; Swift, Eben; Dickman, J. T.; Mills, A. L.
"This book is not presented to the public as a treatise on strategy, but [was] intended solely for the use of the student officers at the U. S. Infantry and Cavalry School in connection with a course of lectures. Many features that would be...
In the spring of 1849, the rebel Hungarians defeated the Austrian army and liberated their country. The leaders of this struggle were Louis Kossuth, one of Hungary's most brilliant statesmen and Arthur Gorgey, one of Hungary's most talented...
Wagner, Arthur L.; Swift, Eben; Dickman, J. T.; Mills, A. L.
This book is not presented to the public as a treatise on strategy, but is intended solely for the use of the student officers at the U.S. Infantry and Cavalry School in connection with a course of lectures. Many features that would be required in...
This paper examines the concept of interior lines of operations at the operational level of war. Initially, the theoretical concepts are examined from the works of Baron von Jomini, Carl von Clausewitz and Mao Tsetung. From these theorists the...
This study investigates the reasons for the success of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon in 1813. Four critical principles emerge from U.S. joint doctrine that provide a means to examine coalition warfare: national goals, unity of effort,...
This monograph examines the dynamic relationships between the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. Current Army doctrine in FM 100-5, Operations depicts the relationships of the levels with a vertical hierarchy, defining the operational...
Strategy is the art of concentrating superior combat power in a theater of operations at the required time and place and under conditions which will favor the defeat or destruction of the enemy's armed forces in battle. One of most momentous...
Blumenthal, Leonhard graf von, Addison, Alexander Dupre Gillespie
A review of the journal of Field-Marshall Count Blumenthal 1866 and 1870-71. Daily recorded observations of the Chief of the Staff of the Second Army of Prussia.
The mechanism for the operation of our military forces beyond the shores of the United States is the modern coalition from the grand alliance of NATO to simple bilateral relationships. Understanding the dynamics of coalition warfare is important...
This study is an historical analysis of the principles utilized by Frederick the Great and General Joseph E. Johnston to conduct war at the operational level. To derive these principles selected campaigns of each are examined. For Frederick these...
The following study of the operations in Serbia from August to December 1914, first appeared serially in the "Revue Militaire Francaise" during 1928. It was later published in book form. The book gives a detailed tactical account of the battles of...
The author selected military operations and campaigns between the years 1815 and 1866. The idea behind the study is that employment of maneuver is closely interwoven with and dependent upon many variables of any given situation. The conclusion...
In the aftermath of World War II, many Western armies studied the German Blitzkrieg success. They concluded that the German mission command philosophy was a cornerstone to lead and command troops in fluid and uncertain combat situations. This...
Throughout the history of warfare, there have been periods when technological developments have dramatically affected the balance between firepower and maneuver on the battlefield. When the new technology enhanced the effectiveness of firepower,...