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    field of military theory, the operational level of war (also called operational art, as derived from Russian: оперативное искусство, or operational warfare)...
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  • determines the level of war within which it operates. — David M. Glantz, Soviet Military Operational Art The operational level of war occupies roughly...
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  • mandated by Congress in 2000 to "explore critical war fighting challenges at the operational level of war that will confront United States joint military...
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  • characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Border war Cold war Colonial war Insurgency War of independence War of liberation Civil war Fault line war Invasion...
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  • (British English: operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics...
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  • Operational Art of War (TOAW) is a series of computer wargames noted for their scope, detail, and flexibility in recreating, at an operational level,...
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  • the following organization of the battlespace at the operational level of war. Combatant commanders are assigned an area of responsibility in the Unified...
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    Study of The Operational Level of War, Taylor & Francis, 2005, p 56 Griffith, pp 141 and 147 Hogg, pp 32-33 The United States in the First World War: An...
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    The Dado Center for Interdisciplinary Military Studies (category Military units and formations of Israel)
    בינתחומית) is a military studies department of the Israel Defense Forces aimed at operational level of war activities. It was named after rav aluf David...
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  • chain management Multi-factor authentication Nuclear football Operational level of war Permissive action link Plausible deniability Security clearance...
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  • the operational level of war, between 1939 and 1955. The Operational Art of War was critically acclaimed, and was named the best computer wargame of 1998...
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  • September 2006). The German 1918 Offensives: A Case Study in The Operational Level of War. Routledge. pp. 66–. ISBN 978-1-134-25224-4. Kent Masterson Brown...
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  • Centers of gravity can be physical, moral, or both, and exist for all belligerents at all tactical, strategic, and operational levels of war simultaneously...
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  • of and the Principles of War, the three Levels of Warfare (Strategic, Operational and Tactical) and its evolving character. The ten Principles of War...
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    flags, flares or torches, although these were chiefly used at the operational level of war. Perhaps the most transformative was electrical telegraphy, which...
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    strength until the sixth day (15 May). At the operational level of war, that the Battle of Hannut had been fought at all was a big success for the German...
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    repair of equipment, and the operation of the intra-theatre transportation system. The operational level of war can be defined by the amount of logistical...
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    of prosperity for the Crimean Khanate. Turkmen tribal groups also performed regular slave raids, referred to as alaman. In the operational level of war...
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    army of Brandenburg-Prussia was characterized by its sense of initiative and aggressive command at both the tactical and operational level of war. The...
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  • Blue Flag is an exercise of the United States Air Force that trains participants at the operational level of war. It is administered by the 505th Combat...
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    Carl von Clausewitz (category Napoleonic Wars prisoners of war held by France)
    narrow: "the use of engagements for the object of war" (which many today would call "the operational level" of war). Clausewitz conceived of war as a political...
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    on the operational surprise of the start of the attack and the effective hurricane bombardment, rather than the low-level tactics. In post-war years,...
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    and apply operational art in an uncertain geostrategic security environment. Employ knowledge of the operational level of war, the art of command, and...
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    Erich Ludendorff (category German Army generals of World War I)
    A case study in the operational level of war. London: Routledge. p. 114. Herwig, Holger L. (1997). The First World War, Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918...
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    a "failure of imagination" on the part of the Israeli government. A BBC report commented on Hamas's "extraordinary levels of operational security". It...
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    Operational Level of War, London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-35600-8 Astore, William J. "The Tragic Pursuit of Total Victory." MHQ: Quarterly Journal of Military...
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  • the "operational level of war." The lowest level of planning which fulfills operational goals and strategy is called the "tactical level of war". A tactical...
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    Northern Army Group (category Formations of the NATO Military Command Structure 1952–1994)
    J. J. G., and Brian Holden Reid, eds. The British Army and the operational level of war. Tri-Service, 1989. Faringdon, Hugh (1989). Strategic Geography:...
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    Offensives: A Case Study in The Operational Level of War, p. 286 Marix Evans, p. 105 Evans, M. M. (2004). Battles of World War I. Select Editions. ISBN 1-84193-226-4...
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    Georg Bruchmüller (category German Army personnel of World War I)
    David T. (2006). The German 1918 Offensives: A Case Study in the Operational Level of War. Cass: Strategy and History. Vol. XVI. London/New York: Routledge...
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