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.
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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 ...
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....
By Frank Barnaby
August 21, 2012
With the end of the Cold War, many of the old threats to European security have disappeared. New ones, however, are now emerging, particularly in the light of the rise of nationalism and the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons to politically unstable countries. The Role and Control ...
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...