The Evolution of Operational Art - Softcover

Isserson, Georgii Samoilovich; Combat Studies Institute Press

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782664408 ISBN 13: 9781782664406

Publisher: Military Bookshop, 2013

Synopsis

From the foreword: "Bruce Menning's translation of Georgii Samoilovich Isserson's 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 Stalin's 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."

Edition details

• Publisher: Military Bookshop
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782664408
• ISBN 13: 9781782664406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136