![]() TRAINING, TACTICS AND LEADERSHIP IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY OF TENNESSEE Seeds of failure Andrew Haughton 6. THE JUNGLE, THE JAPANESE AND THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH ARMIES AT WAR, 1941–1945 T.R.Moreman 5. THE BRITISH DEFENCE OF EGYPT, 1935–1940 Conflict and crisis in the eastern Mediterranean Steven Morewood 4. ALFRED VON SCHLIEFFEN’S MILITARY WRITINGS Robert Foley (ed. ALLENBY AND BRITISH STRATEGY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1917–1919 Matthew Hughes 2. From time to time, the series will publish edited collections of essays and ‘classics’. Series Editors: John Gooch and Brian Holden Reid This series will publish studies on historical and contemporary aspects of land power, spanning the period from the eighteenth century to the present day, and will include national, international and comparative studies. He is a Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Claus Telp obtained a PhD in War Studies at King’s College London. This well-researched book will be of much interest to students of military history and strategic theory, as well as to students of European history in general. First, the interplay between military and non-military factors, such as social, economic, and political developments second, the interplay between military theory and practice and, third, the interplay between developments in France and in Prussia in military theory and practice. Was the evolution of operational art indeed a concomitant of technological change, or did it antedate the major inventions of the Industrial Revolution such as the railway and the telegraph? This book makes the case that operational art emerged in the period from the campaigns of Frederick the Great to the end of the Napoleonic Wars as a result of three dynamic interrelationships or dialectics. ![]() Generally, operational art is considered to be a corollary of the Industrial Revolution, manifesting itself in the campaigns of the German military thinker Helmuth von Moltke and those of the American Civil War. This interest also extended into the field of military history when the origins of operational art became the object of research. THE EVOLUTION OF OPERATIONAL ART, 1740–1813 The term ‘operational art’, coined by Soviet military theorists in the interwar period, received increased attention in military circles with the debate on comparative NATO and Warsaw Pact operational capabilities during the 1970s and 1980s.
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