The Evolution of Operational Art

ISBN-13: 9781782664406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 136 str.

Georgii Samoilovich Isserson;Combat Studies Institute Press; Bruce W. Menning

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From the foreword: "Bruce Mennings translation of Georgii Samoilovich Issersons 1936 treatise The Evolution of Operational Art is the best example available of the distillation of Soviet military thought before the Second World War. Isserson, Tukhachevsky, Shaposhnikov, and others like them were founding members of a focused military Enlightenment whose goal was to change the way armies and leaders thought about war. Moreover, unlike contemporaries such as B.H. Liddell Hart or Billy Mitchell, they had the opportunity to build their ideas into the modern Soviet Army and see their doctrine survive despite the existential challenges of Stalins purges and the German invasion. I commend this work to you as a foundational text, one to which I hope you will refer repeatedly throughout your career."