The myth and reality of German warfare : operational thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger / Colonel Gerhard P. Gross, Bundeswehr ; edited by Major General David T. Zabecki, USA (Ret.) ; foreword by Robert M. Citino.
Publication Info.
Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
Introduction -- Definitions: tactics, operations, strategy -- Factors and constants: space, time, and forces -- The beginnings: planning, mobility, and a system of expedients -- The sword of Damocles: a two-front war -- Bitter awakening: World War I -- Old wine in new wineskins: operational thinking in the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht between reality and utopia -- Lost victories, or the limits of operational thinking -- Operational thinking in the age of the atom -- Conclusion.
