1st Edition

Operational Art Theory and Practice

By Milan Vego Copyright 2025
346 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book describes and explains the theory of operational art – an intermediate field of theory and practice between tactics and strategy. This book is one of relatively few works in the English language on the theory of operational art. It deals predominantly with the theory of operational art as applied to preparing, planning and conducting a high-intensity conventional war. In contrast to... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction  Chapter 2: The Objectives  Chapter 3: Operational Factors  Chapter 4: Methods  Chapter 5: Elements  Chapter 6: Operational Command and Control (C2)  Chapter 7: Operational Support  Chapter 8: Operational Design  Chapter 9: Operational Thinking  Chapter 10: Tenets

Biography

Milan Vego is University Professor and Admiral R. K. Turner Professor of Operational Art at the Naval War College, Rhode Island, United States. He is the author of fifteen books, including Operational Warfare At Sea (2009, 2017). He is also the author of the textbook Joint Operational Warfare (2007, 2009), used at the Naval War College and several staff colleges in the United States and overseas.