In pursuit of military excellence: (Record no. 27230)
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fixed length control field | 01126cam a2200145 4500 |
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 |
945 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) | |
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r | Y |
s | Y |
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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 |