Wednesday, 3 July 2019

The Battle of Königgrätz 1866 | The Evolution of Operational Art

Prussian Infantry storming Austrian artillery batteries.
This monograph, by Charles D. Daves, LTC, Signal Corps, US Army, focuses on "The Königgrätz Campaign offers an outstanding example of the offence operating on exterior lines and the use of the most advanced technology of the era in every phase of the campaign. With operational art as the focus, the importance of defining a clear operational end state and balancing the end state with means, ways, and risk will be analysed. This analysis includes a discussion of Moltke's application of certain theoretical aspects of operational art; these include exterior lines of operation, center of gravity, offence, decisive battle, and the interrelationship of strategic, operational and tactical activities.

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