In pursuit of military excellence: (Record no. 27230)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0714642770 (pbk.):
Terms of availability 20.00 UK
100 #1 - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name NAVEH Shimon
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title In pursuit of military excellence:
Remainder of title the evolution of operational theory
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Frank Cass,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1997
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 398p.
520 #3 - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Argues that Western military thought and much of its practice has been dominated by attritional concepts of destruction inherited from Clausewitz. This is said to be due to a failure to see an enemy army as a system of components which can be dismantled by deep, fast, simultaneous strikes designed to shock. The German blitzkrieg falls short of this approach as was shown by it's failure against Russian forces despite initial tank superiority. By contrast the Red Army used the Soviet Deep Operation theory developed during the 1920s and 30s. Not until the 1980s when the US military developed the Airland Battle concept were the ideas really developed in the West, ideas which subsequently proved so successful in Desert Storm.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element MILITARY THEORY
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element OPERATIONAL THEORY
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Mindef Library & Info Centre Mindef Library & Info Centre On-Shelf 05/05/1998 3 355.020904 NAV 0004859 13/06/2016 1 03/01/2024 Book