The Operational Level of War
About the Book Series
The Operational Level of War series provides a theory for armed conflicts in the present and the immediate future. Unlike many theories it is not rooted in abstractions, but the practice of war, both in history and the immediate past.
The Science of War: Back to First Principles
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian Holden-Reid
December 22, 2014
Forty years of confrontation in Europe have produced a complex set of conditioned reflexes in western military thinking. With the ending of the Warsaw pact, planning and analysis specialists have had to look again at the basic principles of war: there is no sure ground any more. The analysis of ...
The Framework of Operational Warfare
1st Edition
By Clayton Newell
November 10, 2014
With the five paragraph field order format used by the US Army as his base, Lieutenant Colonel Newell provides a logical way to make sense of the chaos of war, and to determine whether or not war is the most appropriate means of resolving disputes....
Military Intervention in the 1990s
1st Edition
By Colonel Richard M Connaughton
March 10, 1993
The greatest `projection of power' in history, dwarfing in scale and speed even the D Day landings of 1944 was enacted in the Gulf in the spring of 1991. It marked dramatically the revolution in military affairs which has followed the ending of confrontation in Europe. But the war and its aftermath...