Carrying the War to the Enemy: American Operational Art to 1945 Volume 28

by Michael R. Matheny

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080614324X
• ISBN13: 9780806143248
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"