Carrying the War to the Enemy American Operational Art To 1945

Name: Carrying the War to the Enemy American Operational Art To 1945
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ISBN: 9780806143248

ISBN-10: 080614324X

ISBN-13: 9780806143248

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael R. Matheny

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 6/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Michael R. Matheny retired after 30 years with the U.S. Army to earn a Ph.D. in military history and join the faculty of the Department of Military Strategy, Planning, and Operations at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Roots of Operational Art



Operational Art in the American Army before1919



Landpower



Airpower



Seapower



The European Theater of War



The Pacific Theater of War



Lessons and Legacy


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index