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INDEX
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adaptability
Adolphus, Gustavus
Afghanistan: Afghan forces; and counterinsurgency; guerrilla warfare; insurgency in; al Qaeda in; Taliban in; Tora Bora, Battle of; Wanat, Battle of
agoge
airpower: air support; and firepower; Khe Sanh, Battle of; Korean War; Luftwaffe; and maneuver; and shock effect; Stalingrad, Battle of; and tempo; 2003 Iraq War; World War II
Alexander the Great
ambush: as enemy-oriented task; and firepower; in French & Indian War; Hannibal’s use of; insurgents use of; in Korean War; Mongol use of; NVA (North Vietnamese Army) use of; and surprise; Syracusan army use; tactical tenets of; timelessness of; underlying principles of
annihilation strategy: annihilation tactics; annihilation-exhaustion paradigm; Niederwerfungsstrategie; sequential-cumulative paradigm
archer use
armor: in ancient warfare; cataphracts; and chariots; and firepower; in Greek warfare; in Middle Ages; in Peloponnesian Wars; Roman use of; in Spanish conquest; Spartans use of. See also tanks
artillery: Civil War; as combined arms; disadvantages of; and fortifications; jumping barrage technique; Khe Sanh, Battle of; mental effects of; and Napoleon; and shock effect concept; as support; Vimeiro, Battle of; and WWI; and WWII
assessment
Assyrian Empire
asymmetry
attrition strategy: attrition/annihilation dichotomy; Boyd on; of Grant; and insurgency; and moral cohesion
Aufragstaktik/mission command
Austria
auxilia troops
battles: Austerlitz; Borodino; Breitenfeld; the Bulge; Bunker Hill; Cannae; Chancellorsville; Cold Harbor; Cowpens; Crécy; Dien Bien Phu; Fallujah; Fredricksburg; Gallipoli; Gaugameda; Gettysburg; Goose Green; Hastings; Hohenfriedberg; Jena-Aurstadt; Jutland; Kalka River; Khe Sanh; Lake Trasimene; Leuctra; Leuthen; Liegnitz; Masada; Mohi Bridge; Monongahela; the Nile; Nineveh; North Anna; Orléans; Otumba; Pearl Harbor attack; Petersburg; River Plate; Sa’ari Steppe; Salamanca; Sphacteria; Stalingrad; Thermopylae; Tora Bora; Trafalgar; Trebia; Troy; Tsushima Strait; Vimeiro; Wanat; the Wilderness; Yorktown; Zama
bayonet charge
Biddle, Stephen
blitzkrieg
Boers/Boer War
Boyd, John: on cheng/ch’i concepts; friction concept; on moral cohesion; on politics; strategic theory of; on tempo; and On War (Clausewitz)
Braddock, Edward
Brasidas
British military: in Afghanistan; Boer War; British Royal Navy; Cowpens, Battle of; Crimean War; Falklands War; French & Indian War; Gallipoli, Battle of; in Iraq; leadership of; Peninsular War; Suez Canal crisis; Vimeiro, Battle of; Yorktown, Battle of
Bülow, Bernhard von
Burnside, Ambrose
Carthaginian army
cavalry: Charge of the Light Brigade; Cossacks; and deception; equites troops; Greek/Macedonian use of; in medieval warfare; shock effect of; tercio formation and
center of gravity: astrophysics; Athens; Clausewitz on; conclusions; current view of; defined; modern use of; Napoleon as; overview; physics vs. astrophysics; Stalingrad; Wylie’s Coup
centralization/decentralization of command
Chandler, David
cheng/ch’i concepts
Chingis (Ghengis) Khan
Citino, Robert M.
Civil War: Appomattox; Confederate Army; offensive/defensive operations; Union troops. See also under battles; specific officers
Clausewitz, Carl von: center of gravity; on confusion; culminating point concept; defensive/offensive operations; on destruction; on doctrine; on flexibility; on friction; and Iraqi insurgents; on mass; misinterpretation of; on moral cohesion; nature of war; on numerical superiority; offensive/defensive operations; physics and astrophysics; politics and strategy; Principles; on Prussian training system; quotes; on surprise; on tactical warfare; tactics-strategy dichotomy; On War; war as contest of wills; Wylie comparison
cohesion
combat power
combined arms concept
command/control
communication
confusion
conscription/voluntarism
Continental Army
conventional/guerilla warfare: Clausewitz on strategic offense/defense; Delbrück on attrition/annihilation; Kissinger on; and mitigation; overview; strategic symmetry/asymmetry; Vietnam War; Wylie on sequential/cumulative
corps system
counterinsurgency
cover and concealment
“crossing the T” naval tactic
culminating point concept
cyber warfare
decentralization/centralization of command
deception; defined; Korean War; as mental tenet; Napoleon’s diplomatic; and surprise; and tacticians
defense in depth tactics
defensive/offensive operations
Delbrück, Hans
direct/indirect approach
dispersal tactics
distributed lethality concept
doctrine: Clausewitz, on; and counterinsurgency; of U.S. Army; of U.S. Marine Corps
Du Picq, Ardant
duty
Echevarria, Antulio J.
economy
effects-based operations
Egyptian forces
Einheit (unity), and center of gravity
electronic warfare
Ellis, Earl “Pete”
entropy concept
environment/geography; ground types; in Korean War; mastery of terrain; in Napoleonic wars; Sun Tzu on
Epaminondas of Thebes
equites troops
Ermattungsstrategie/annihilation strategy
esprit de corps
ethics
exhaustion strategy: annihilation-exhaustion paradigm; Ermattungsstrategie; exhaustion tactics; sequential-cumulative paradigm
firepower: in Afghanistan; and airpower; and ambush; in ancient warfare; and combined arms; defined; and dispersal; distributed lethality concept and; Germans use of; interlocking; in Korean War; and maneuver; and mass; mental effects of; in Middle Ages; missile weapons; and mitigation; in modern warfare; Mongol use of; panzer corps; as physical tenet; and shock effect; and symbiosis; and tacticians; and trenches; use of; in WWI; in WWII
flanking attack: Breitenfeld, Battle of; Confederate use of; and deception; in Falklands War; Frederick the Great’s use of; Greek use of; Guevara’s use of; and infiltration; Jomini on; Korean War; Mongols use of; Napoleon’s use of; and phalanx formation; and surprise; tactic and technique; 2003 Iraq War; Union use of; Vimeiro, Battle of; in WWI
flexibility: Alexander the Great and; in defense operations; and leadership; and logistics; as planning principle; of Roman army; in warfare
fluidity/chaos component
Foch, Ferdinand
formations: charging bull formation; checkerboard pattern formation; column formation; phalanx formation; tercio formation
fortifications
Frederick, Jim
Frederick the Great
Freedman, Lawrence
French and Indian War
French military: Charles VI; Dien Bien Phu, Battle of; French navy; leadership of; and mental effects; and moral cohesion; Napoleonic Corps; Suez Canal crisis; Vimeiro, Battle of. See also French & Indian War; Napoleon I; Napoleonic Wars
friction concept
Fuller, J. F. C.
Germany/German military: blitzkrieg; in Czechoslovakia; German navy; goals of; howitzer use; infiltration tactics; and mitigation; Operation Autumn Mist; poison gas use; and Red Army; shock troops; Stalingrad, Battle of; tactical success of; and Turks. See also Hitler, Adolf
Grant, Ulysses S.
Gray, Colin S.
Greeks/Greek warfare: Athens; diekplous maneuver; Greek fleet; helots; hoplites; The Iliad; Leuctra, Battle of; Peloponnesian Wars; phalanx formation; Philip II of Macedon. See also Alexander the Great; Spartans
Guderian, Heinz
Gudmonsson, Bruce
guerrilla warfare
Gulf War
Hannibal
hastati troops
helots
Hitler, Adolf: Operation Autumn Mist; Operation Blue; Operation Uranus; and panzer division; and Red Army; Stalingrad, Battle of
hoplites: chanting of; defined; as freeman; Leuctra, Battle of; phalanx formation; Roman comparison; Sphacteria, Battle of; Thermopylae, Battle of; training
hoplon
Hughes, Wayne P., Jr.
Hundred Years’ War
Hungarian army
Hussein, Saddam
indirect/direct approach
infiltration tactics
information assurance concept
initiative concept
innovations
insurgents/insurgency
intelligence
interdependence (Zusammenhang)
Iraq/Iraqi army: and counterinsurgency; environment/geography; guerrilla warfare; Hussein, Saddam; Iraqi Civil War; ISIS in; and politics; U.S. 2003 invasion of. See also 2003 Iraq War
Israeli military
Jackson, Stonewall (Thomas Jonathan)
Japanese military: Japanese aerial attacks; Japanese army; Japanese navy; Togo, Heihachiro
Joan of Arc
Jomini, Antoine Henri
Jugurthine War
Julius Caesar
jumping barrage technique
Jünger, Ernst
jus ad bellum/jus in bello terms
Keegan, John
Korean War
leadership: centralization/decentralization of command; commander intent; consuls; education; and flexibility; Kemal, Mustafa; and moral cohesion; and policy; subordinate commanders; and tempo
Lee, Robert E.
Leonhard, Robert
Liddell Hart, Basil
limitation
Lin Paio
Lind, William
logistics
Luftwaffe
MacArthur, Douglas
Macedonians
Machiavelli, Niccolò
main effort/Schwerpun
maneuver; defense against; defined; diekplous maneuver; double envelopment maneuver; envelopment; envelopment maneuver; and firepower; flanking attack; forms of; Frederick the Great’s use of; frontal attacks and; infiltration; Iraq War (2003); Macedonian use of; manoevre de derrière; in medieval warfare; Mongols use of; Napoleon’s use of; outmaneuvering; phalanx formation; as physical tenet; and strategy; swarming maneuver; and symbiosis; and tacticians; Tet Offensive; turning movement. See also outmaneuvering
Manstein, Erich von
Mao Zedong (Tse-Tung)
maskirovka concept
mass; Clausewitz on; defined; and economy; and firepower; Frederick the Great’s use of; Germans use of; Grant’s use of; jumping barrage technique; Leuctra, Battle of; Mongol use of; phalanx formation; as physical tenet; and shock effect; and symbiosis; and tacticians
mental tenets: combating; deception; long lasting effects of; shock effect concept; surprise; and tacticians
mercenaries
Milevski, Lukas
mission command/Aufragstaktik
mitigation: and environment/geography; and firepower; and friction; and human factors; and leadership; and mental effects; and mission command; and tempo
Mongols: deception use; and gunpowder; horse archers; mixed forces of; Mohi Bridge, Battle of; organization of; politics of
moral cohesion; defined; ethics; in Korean War; leadership; loss of; as moral tenet; morale comparison; morality; Napoleon and; power of; Storr on; and tactical victory; voluntarism/conscription
morale: as binding factor; and cohesion; defined; and moral cohesion; Napoleon and; of Red Army
Morgan, Daniel
Napoleon I: attrition vs. annihilation strategies; Borodino, Battle of; as cause of Napoleonic Wars; as center of gravity; corps system of; deception tactics; dispersal tactics of; maneuver tactics of; mastery of terrain; Peninsular Wars; principles of war; quote; and Spain; Trafalgar, Battle of; and troop morale; Waterloo
Niederwerfungsstrategie/exhaustion strategy
Norman Invasion
North Vietnamese Army (NVA)
oblique order tactic
offensive/defensive operations
On War (Clausewitz)
Operation Desert Shield/Storm. See Gulf War
Operation Iraqi Freedom. See 2003 Iraq War
Operation Uranus
operational art
operational level of war
operational security concept
organization of militaries: Assyrian Empire; current; Macedonians; Mongol Horde; Napoleonic Corps; panzer division; Roman Legion; units
Pakistan
panzer corps
Paret, Peter
Patton, George
Paulus, Friedrich
Peloponnesian Wars
peltasts
Persians/Persian Wars: cataphracts; conscription/voluntarism; Darius III; horse archers; Persian fleet; Thermopylae, Battle of; Xerxes
Philip II of Macedon
Philippines
planning principles: communication; conclusions; economy; flexibility; overview; simplicity; time; unity
policy: defined; Mongols; and operational levels; and strategy; and tactics
politics: Boyd on; Bush administration; and center of gravity; Clausewitz on; and insurgency; and point of culmination; Roman army; and strategy; and victory; and Vietnam War
principes troops
probability/chance
proportional force
Prussia/Prussian army
Punic Wars
al Qaeda
Red Army: Delbrück dichotomy and; maskirovka concept; Moscow defense; Operation Mars; Operation Uranus; outmaneuvered; Stalingrad, Battle of; use of mass
reserve: in charging bull formation; command/control pillar; defined; and economy; Napoleon I; Roman army; Stalingrad, Battle of
riarii troops
Roman military: and cohesion; combined arms; and Hannibal; Julius Caesar; Masada, siege of; Mongol comparison; Punic Wars; Roman navy; success of; voluntarism/conscription
Romanian army
Rommel, Erwin
Russian/Soviet military. See also Red Army
Russo-Japanese War
Scales, Robert
Schwerpunkt/main effort
Scipio, Publius Cornelius
sequential-cumulative paradigm. See also annihilation strategy
Sherman, William T.
shock effect concept; and airstrikes; of bayonet charge; of bombardment; of cavalry charge; defined; mental effects of; as mental tenet; and tacticians; of tanks
siege warfare
simplicity
Soviet Union. See also Red Army
Spain/Spanish infantry
Spartans/Sparta: agoge; and Athens; Brasidas; and cavalry/light infantry; chanting of; comparisons to; freemen warriors; helots; Leuctra, Battle of; and maneuver; and missile weapons; Peloponnesian Wars; Sphacteria, Battle of; tactics of; Thermopylae, Battle of. See also hoplites
Stalin, Joseph
Storr, Jim
Strachan, Hew
strategy: as a bridge; defined; indirect/direct approach; and policy; and politics; strategic symmetry/asymmetry; strategic theory; and tactics
