How Wars Are Won: The 13 Rules of War-From Ancient Greece to the War on Terror
Index
Acheson, Dean, 197, 198, 200, 371n.9
Adrianople. See Battle of Adrianople
Aerial drones. See Unmanned aerial vehicles
Afghanistan, 359n.4
accurate missions against pinpoint targets, 251
- firebase, 149
- Gardez operation, 75
- Kandahar, 150, 229, 355
- landing overwhelming blow, 232
- Predator video cameras, 13, 3590.4
- pressing into enemy’s vitals, 180, 181, 201
- special forces units, 16, 93, 300, 359n.4
- Taliban, 25, 149, 152, 180, 201, 251, 300, 3590.4
Agincourt. See Battle of Agincourt
Albany (New York), 209, 211, 213, 3730.9
Alençon, Count of, 58
Alexander (czar), 263, 264, 268, 376n.12
Alexander, Porter, 68, 71, 221
Alexander the Great
- against unorthodox battle methods, 29
- Battle of Hydaspes, 7, 302—6
- cavalry, 47, 255, 260, 367n.3
- convergent assault, 19
- and Darius III, 259—61, 375n.5
- influence of Epaminondas, 375n.3
- penetrating weak spot, 253—61, 269
- pressing into heart of enemy, 181—82
Allison, Graham, 357n.3
Alp Arslan, 103—5
Al Qaeda, 16, 24, 25, 93, 201, 232, 251, 300, 303, 355, 359n.4
Ambushes, 1, 6,19, 202, 270
American Indians, 212
American Revolution, 209—20, 373n.12
See also specific battles
Amherst, Jeffrey, 307, 308
Anabasis (Xenophon), 203
Anatolia, 103—4, 107, 182, 256, 258
Anderson, Kenneth A., 145, 147
Anderson, Richard H., 224, 225
Anger, 26
Anglo-Saxons, 5—6, 157
Annihilation, 271
Antietam. See Battle of Antietam
Apache helicopter, 360—61n.12
Appomattox surrender, 193
Arabia, 43—45
Arafat, Yasir, 24
Arbela. See Battle of Arbela
Archers, 20—21, 50—54, 59, 60, 97—103, 105, 107, 117, 153—56, 370n.3
Aristotle, 254
Armenia, 103
Arminius, 206—7
Armor, 60
Arnim, Hans-Jürgen von, 145—48
Arquilla, John, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20
Arrow. See Bow and arrow; Longbow
Artaxerxes II, 202—3
Art of War (Sun Tzu), 30
Aryan people, 98
Assassins (Nizari Ismailis), 24—25
Assyria, 99—100
Asymmetrical armies, 6
Athens (Greece), 235, 237
Atlanta (Georgia), 190—91, 193, 194
Atomic bomb, 181, 338
Auerstädt. See Battle of Auerstädt
Austerlitz. See Battle of Austerlitz
Austria, 127, 130, 262—69, 307, 329
Babylonians, 100
Bagration (prince), 266, 268
Baidar (prince), 112—15
Balck, Hermann, 319
Balfour, Arthur, 277
Baner, Johan, 170
Banks, Nathaniel B., 123—26
Barbarian tribes, 153—54, 157
Basilacius, 105
Battle of Adrianople, 152—56
Battle of Agincourt, 60, 163
Battle of Antietam, 66
Battle of Arbela, 261, 303
Battle of Auerstädt, 82—85
Battle of Austerlitz, 262—69
Battle of Breitenfeld, 76, 168—71
Battle of Britain, 21
Battle of Cannae, 271, 272—75, 276, 287
Battle of Carrhae, 101
Battle of Chaeronea, 254
Battle of Chancellorsville, 220—29, 365n.12, 366n.16
Battle of Crécy, 41, 54, 56—59, 163
Battle of Dupplin Muir, 55—56, 57
Battle of First Manassas, 62, 122
Battle of Fredericksburg, 66—67
Battle of Gettysburg, 67—71, 301
Battle of Granicus, 256—58, 262, 303
Battle of Halidon Hill, 56
Battle of Hastings, 5 6,157—63
Battle of Hydaspes, 302—6
Battle of Issus, 259—60, 303
Battle of Jena, 82—85, 367n.3
Battle of Leuctra, 235—37, 240
Battle of Leuthen, 245—47, 251, 276, 324, 325
Battle of Lützen, 172—73
Battle of Marengo, 336—38
Battle of Midway, 339
Battle of Poitiers, 41, 60, 163
Battle of Rossbach, 241—45
Battle of Saratoga, 209—15
Battle of Second Manassas, 64—65, 66
Battle of Taginae, 52, 53
Battle of Tannenberg, 276, 282—89
Battle of Teutoburger Wald, 204—9, 372n.6
Battle of the Coral Sea, 339
Battle of the Philippine Sea, 348
Battle of Trafalgar, 248—50
Battle of Waterloo, 15, 130—40, 369nn.8—10
Battle of Yorktown, 215—20
Battle of Zama, 183
Battles of the Seven Days, 62, 63, 126
Batu (prince), 114—18
Bayonet, 164
Beau Geste (Wren), 270
Beaulieu, Johann Peter, 129—30, 368n.4
Bedouins, 44—45
BEF. See British Expeditionary Force
Bela IV (king), 111, 114—15
Belgium, 131—32, 138, 141, 313, 315—16, 320, 323
Belisarius, 48—51, 73
Below, Fritz von, 286—88, 377n.10
Bemis Heights, 213, 214
Bernadotte, Jean, 265, 268
Berry, Hiram, 228
Bialystok (Soviet Union), 293—94
Bismarck Islands, 346
Black Hawk helicopter, 361n.14
Blitzkrieg, 141, 289—90
Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 131, 132, 134—38, 140
Bock, Fedor von, 291
Boeotia, 235, 237
Boer War, 43
Borcke, Heros von, 365n.12
Boswell, J. Keith, 228, 229
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, 308, 311
Bougainville Island, 341
Bourcet, Pierre de, 241 42
Bow and arrow, 20—21, 50—54, 97, 109, 158, 160—62, 370n.3
- See also Compound bow; Longbow;
- Horse-archers
Braddock, Edward, 307
Bradley, Omar, 353, 354
Brauchitsch, Walther von, 296, 322
Breitenfeld. See Battle of Breitenfeld
Britain. See England
British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 321—22
Brute strength, 253—54
B-29 bombers, 338, 340, 348
Bucentaure (ship), 375n.10
Budenny, Seymon, 296—97
Bulgars, 110
Bull Run. See Battle of First Manassas,
Battle of Second Manassas
Bülow, Frederick William von, 131
Burgoyne, John, 209—15, 218, 22f 373mm.9—10
Burma, 340
Burnside, Ambrose E., 66, 67, 22
Byzantines, 48-54,101—7, 156—5’ 364n.6, 367—68n.5, 370n.3
Caesar Augustus, 204, 205, 208—9
Calabria (Italy), 327
Caldron battles, 270—300
- Battle of Cannae, 272—75
- Battle of Tannenberg, 282—89
- German attack on Soviet Union, 289—99
- Schlieffen Plan, 275—82
Canada, 306
Cannae. See Battle of Cannae
Cannon, 163—64, 166—67, 169
Cape Gloucester (New Britain Island), 378n.7
Caracole, 164—67
Cardaces, 259, 260
Cardigan, Lord, 237—38
Carlton, Sir Guy, 211
Caroline Islands, 340, 345—46
Carthage, 182—83, 272—75, 32t
Cassius, Dio, 205—6
Castiglione (Italy), 262
Castles, 158, 163—64, 363n.21
Cataphract, 49, 101—2, 370n.3
Caucasus (Soviet Union), 194
Cavalry
- armored, 101—2, 153-57
- Byzantine, 101—2
- Hannibal’s, 272, 367n.3
- Macedonian, 255, 260, 367ii.3
- Mongol, 108—18
- Persian, 256—57
- shock value, 165, 167
- See also Horse-archers
Cemetery Hill (Gettysburg), 70—71, 301
Central position, 121—50, 368n.2
- Civil War (American), 121 27, 140
- Napoleon as champion of, 127—40
- Rommel’s use of, 140, 142—48
Ceva (Italy), 129
Chancellorsville. See Battle of
Chancellorsville
Chandler, David C., 375n.1
Change of front, 170
Chapultepec, castle of (Mexico), 190
Charge of the Light Brigade, 237
Chariots, 97, 98, 303
Charles of Lorraine (prince), 241, 244—45, 247
Chesapeake Bay, 215, 217, 218—20, 373n.12
Chiang Kai-shek, 198
China, 21—22, 29—31, 94, 198-200, 340, 351, 355, 358n.4, 371nn.9—10
Chu Pang (Vietnam), 35, 37—39
Cimmerians, 99
Civil War (American), 8, 73
- Battle of Chancellorsville, 220—29
- and central position, 121—27
- countering new weapon, 61—67
- frontal attacks in, 30 1—2
- Gettysburg, 67—71
- penetrating weak point, 252
- Sherman’s march, 190—94
Cleitus the Black, 258
Clemenceau, Georges, 2
Cleombrotus (king), 235, 236
Clinton, Sir Henry, 211, 215, 216, 218, 372n.9
Clusters, 14, 16-18, 20
Collingwood, Cuthbert, 249, 250
Collins, J. Lawton, 352—53
Command centers, 12
Commanders, 8,15—16,121, 140—41, 180—81, 230
Commnissar order, 294
Communications, 15, 75
Compound bow, 97, 98, 101, 102, 109, 153, 157, 364n.6, 370n.3
Condottiere, 165
Constantine (grand duke), 267
Constantine X (emperor), 103
Constantinople (Istanbul), 48—49, 101, 103, 107
Conventional takeoff and landing, 359n.6
Convergent assault, 19, 75
Corap, André, 317
Cornwallis, Lord, 215 18, 220, 229
Coroalles, Anthony M.,18
Couch, Darius N., 226
Craterus, 304—6
Creasy, Sir Edward, 215
Crécy. See Battle of Crécy
Crimean War, 237
Cuban missile crisis, 3
Cunningham, Alan, 371n.11
Cyrus, 202—3
Dada, 154
Damascus-Medina railway, 44
Danube River, 204—5
Darius (king), 100
Darius III (king), 47, 182, 259—61, 375n.5
Daun, Leopold, 241, 244—47, 3740.5
Davis, Jefferson, 62, 67, 124, 193, 368n.2
Davout, Louis-Nicolas, 82—85, 133, 265, 268
Dean, William F., 87
do Barras, Commander, 219—20
Deception, 9—10, 75, 118—20, 253—54, 301, 323 24
do Gaulle, Charles, 319
do Grasse, Comte, 218—19, 220, 373n.15
Delbrück, Hans, 375n.i
Demaratus the Corinthian, 258
Desaix, Louis C.A., 335 38
Desert warfare, 174
Destouches, Sochet. 217
Detachment 101 (Office of Strategic Services), 27—28
Diem, Ngo Dinh, 33, 363n.14
Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam), 33, 230, 231
Discipline, 165, 166
Dispersion, 13, 16
Distraction, 75
Dnepropetrovsk (Soviet Union), 21
Dnieper River, 296—97
Drill, 165, 166
Drouet d’Erlon, Jean-Baptiste, 134—35
Drusus, 205
Ducas, Andronicus, 105, 106
Ducas, John, 104, 106
Duc Co (Vietnam), 35
“Dumb” bombs, 12
Dunkirk (France), 32 1—23
Dupplin Muir (Scotland), 55-56, 57
Early, Jubal, 68
Eastern Roman Empire. See Byzantines
East Prussia, 282—83, 285—86
Economic communication, 356
Edward I (king), 55
Edward II (king), 56
Edward III (king), 54, 56—57, 59, 60
Edward the Confessor. 158
Egypt, 97, 261, 329
88-mm antiaircraft gun, 15, 175, 176
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 144, 327—28
El Alamein (Egypt), 142, 177
Elba (island), 130
Elephants, 304
Empress Augusta Bay, 341, 343
Enemy rear, maneuvers on, 325—56
Enemy resistance, 180—20 1
Enemy retreat, 202—31
Enemy weakness, 23—45
England
- American Revolution, 209—20
- Battle of Britain, 21
- Battle of Crécy, 41, 57—59
- Battle of Hastings, 5—6, 157—63
- Boer War, 43
- campaign in Arabia, 43 44
- French and Indian War, 307 12
- Hundred Years War, 8, 54
- Seven Years War, 238, 307
Eniwetok Atoll, 345—46
Epaminondas, 234 37, 238, 240, 248, 375n.3
Espoy y Mina, Francisco, 42
Ewell, Richard S., 68, 124—26
Fabian strategy, 40, 183, 273, 275
Fabius Maximus, Quintus, 40, 181, 273
Faid Pass, 144—46
Fear, 26, 362n.3
Feigned retreat, 94—120
Feint, 21
Ferdinand II (Holy Roman emperor), 76, 79, 167, 168, 171
Feriana (Tunisia), 146
Fetterman Massacre, 94
Feudal system, 157, 163
50-mm antitank gun, 175—76
Finschhafen (Huon Peninsula), 343
Fire-and-maneuver tactics, 4, 19, 75, 253
First Manassas. See Battle of First Manassas
First Punic War, 182, 272
First World War. See World War
Foch, Ferdinand, 280
Fondouk Pass, 144, 145
Forbes, John, 307
Fort Bard, 334
Fort Duquesne, 307
Fort Edward, 209, 213
Fortescue, J. W., 312
Fort Ticonderoga, 209, 212—13, 373n.l0
France
- American Revolution, 2 14—20
- Battle of Crécy, 41, 56—59, 163
- Battle of Hastings, 5—6, 157—63
- Battle of Poitiers, 41, 60, 163
- feudal system, 157
- historical guerrilla conflicts,
- Hundred Years War, 8, 40—41
- under Louis XIV, 173
- in Vietnam, 6, 3 1—33
- World War I, 283
- World War II defeat, 312 23
- World War II resistance, 27
- See also Napoleon Bonaparte
Francis (emperor), 263, 264, 2i
François, Hermann K. von, 285, 377n.10
Franklin, Benjamin, 214
Franz Ferdinand (archduke), I
Fredendall, Lloyd R.. 143, 144,
Frederick II (Holy Roman emperor), 111
Fredericksburg. See Battle of Fredericksburg
Frederick the Great, 81, 127, 238—48, 251, 276, 307, 324, 325, 374nn.5—6
Frederick William III (king), 81, 82, 84, 85
Frémont, John C., 123—26
French and Indian War, 306—12
Fridigern, 154, 155
Fuller, J. F. C., 137, 262, 375n.l
Fyrd, 370n.6
Gafsa Pass, 144—46
Gamelin, Maurice Gustave, 315—16
Gardez operation (Afghanistan), 75, 232
Gates, Horatio, 213
Gaugamela. See Battle of Arbela
Genghis Khan, 108, 109, 325, 326
Genoa (Italy), 332—37
George III (king), 210, 211
George William of Brandenburg, 168
Georgia, 192, 193
Gérard, Etienne Maurice, 135, 137, 138
Germain, Lord George, 210—11, 216, 218, 372n.9
Germanicus, 208—9
Germany
- Battle of Tannenberg, 276, 282—89
- Battle of Teutoburger Wald, 204—9
- and France, 330, 337
- Holy Roman Empire, 167—68, 173
- Schlieffen Plan, 275—82
- World War I, 2 76—89
- See also World War II
Gettysburg. See Battle of Gettysburg, 67—71
Giap, Vo Nyugen, 30, 31—32, 34, 35
Gilbert Islands, 343
Global Hawk reconnaissance aircraft, 359n.4
Global Positioning System (GPS), 3, 4, 250
Gloucester Point (Virginia), 218, 220
Göring, Hermann, 230, 322—23
Goths, 49—54, 73, 153—56
GPS. See Global Positioning System
Granicus. See Battle of Granicus
Grant, Ulysses S., 190, 191, 192
Graves, Thomas, 218, 219, 373n.15
Great Lakes, 308
“Great Marianas Turkey Shoot,” 347
Great St. Bernard Pass, 332, 333
Greece (ancient), 100, 202—3, 234—37, 255
Gregory IX (pope), 111
Grouchy, Marshal Emmanuel de, 15, 133—34, 136—39, 369nn.9—10
Ground sensors, 13
Guadalcanal, 339
Guam, 338, 347, 348
Guderian, Heinz, 291, 293—98, 313, 315—19, 321, 328
Guerrilla war
- of Mao Zedong, 28—3 1, 363n.9
- and modern armies, 11
- striking at enemy weakness, 23—39
- successes through history, 40—45
- and terrorism, 23—24, 26
- of Totila, 364n.2
- in Vietnam, 6,17
Guesclin, Constable Bertrand du, 40—42
Guile. See Deception
Gustavus Adolphus (king), 75—80, 93, 165—74, 262
Guy of Ponthieu (count), 370n.5
Halder, Franz, 296
Halsey, William, 341, 343, 344
Hamas, 24
Hamilcar, 272
Hampton Roads (Virginia), 2 15—18, 373n.12, 373n.14
Hannibal, 19, 40, 182—83, 272—76, 326, 367n.3
Harold (king), 5—6, 158—60, 162, 370n.5
Harold Hardrada (king), 158—59
Harriman, W. Averell, 353
Hastings. See Battle of Hastings
Helicopters, 18, 36—37, 204, 360—61nn.12—l4
Hellfire missiles, 13
Henry (prince), 244
Henry of Silesia, 113, 114
Herero tribesmen, 271
Herodotus, 9
Hill, A. P., 70, 221, 228, 229
Hindenburg, Paul von, 285—86
Hiroshima (Japan), 338
Hitler, Adolf
- and Africa, 141, 174, 177
- blitzkrieg, 141
- and campaign in Italy, 327
- and defeat of France, 315, 318.
- plan to conquer Europe, 312
- and Soviet Union, 141—42, 194-97, 231, 290, 291, 294-99
- and Stalingrad, 194-97, 230, 231
Hittites, 98
Hobbes, Thomas, 29
Hoepner, Erich, 291, 297, 298, 315
Hoffman, Max, 285—86, 288
Hohenlohe, Friedrich Ludwig (prince), 84—85
Holland, 215, 313, 315, 323
Holy Roman Empire, 76, 167
Hood, John Bell, 193
Hood, Sir Samuel, 219, 373n.15
Hooker, “Fighting Joe,’ 67, 68, 221—22, 224—29, 365n.12
Horn, Gustav, 170
“Hornet” canister, 13
Horse-archers, 20—21, 98—102, 107, 153—56, 370n.3
Horse chariots, 97
Horses, 97, 98, 101, 157
Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 227
Hoth, Hermann, 291, 293—98
Housecarls, 158-60, 370n.6
Howard, Oliver 0., 226, 227
Howe, William, 209—12, 213, 372n.9
Hundred Years War, 8, 40—41, 54, 163
Hungary, 111—12,114—17
Huns, 49, 154
Hussein (sharif of Mecca), 44
Hussein, Saddam, 2,178, 179, 201, 324
Hydaspes River. See Battle of Hydaspes
Hyksos, 97
IAV. See Interim armored vehicle
Iliad (Homer), 9
Incendiary arrows, 109
Inchon invasion, 197, 348—55
Independence (aircraft carder), 341
India, 72, 98, 215, 303, 329
Indochina, 33, 230
Indus River civilization, 98
Infrared-guided missile system, 360n.10
Integrated information system, 360n.8
Interim armored vehicle (IAV), 18
IRA. See Irish Republican Army
Iran, 356
Iraq, 25, 178, 201, 251, 324, 356
Irish Republican Army (IRA), 24, 25
Isabella (queen), 56
Islam, 25, 362n.2
Islamic Jihad, 24
Israel, 24, 25, 72—73
Issus. See Battle of Issus
Istanbul. See Constantinople
Italy, 127—30, 327—37
Jackson, Thomas J. ‘Stonewall,’ 120, 140, 366n.14
- and central position, 122—27, 141, 368n.2
- at Chancellorsville, 221—22, 225—21, 365n.12
- countering new weapon, 61—67
- on defending position, 365n.12
Japan, 181, 298, 338—41, 378n.8
Javelin, 47, 257, 259
Javelin missile, 358n.2, 366n.21
Jaxartes River, 325—26
JCS. See Joint Chiefs of Staff
Jebe Noyan, 108—9
Jedbourghs, 27
Jena. See Battle of Jena
Jilinsky Yakov Grigorievich, 286
Joan of Arc, 42
John George of Saxony, 168, 172
John of Gaunt, 41
John of Plano Carpini, 117
Johnson, Louis, 353
Johnson, Lyndon B., 16, 33, 39
Johnston, Joseph E., 122—23, l25—27, 140, 191—93, 368n.2
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 351—54
Joint direct-attack munition, 359n.4
Joint strike fighter, 359—60n.6
Jomini, Antoine-Henri, 7
Junkers, 283
Justinian (emperor), 48—50, 52
Kachin tribesmen, 27—28
Kadan (prince), 112—15
Kampfgruppen, 17
Kandahar (Afghanistan), 150, 229, 355
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand (duke of Brunswick), 84
Kashmir, 72
Kasserine Pass, 147
Kassites, 97
Keeley, Lawrence H., 270
Kellermann, François E., 337
Keynes, John Maynard, 277
Khwarezmian Empire, 108, 325, 326
Kiev (Ukraine), 291, 296—97, 299
Kinnard, Harry W.0., 36-37
Kipchaks, 110
Kirponos, Mikhail, 296, 297
Kleist, Ewald von, 291, 293, 295, 297, 316—19, 322
Kluck, Alexander von, 282
Knights, 41, 56, 59, 60, 113, 163 64, 364n.6
Koga, Mineichi, 343, 345
Kolombangara Island, 341
Kongju (South Korea), 87—89, 92
Korean War
- asymmetry in, 152
- “breakout to the coast,” 203
- Chinese role in, 178, 198—200, 253, 351,
- 355, 371nn.9—10
- deception in, 120
- drive to Yalu River, 197—200, 351
- Inchon invasion, 197, 348-55
Kum River line, 86—92, 93
- swarming tactics in, 21
Kray von Krajowa, Paul, 331, 333, 337
Kum River, 86—92, 93
Kunsan (Korea), 3152—53
Kutuzov, Mikhail, 262—64, 266, 267, 376n.10, 376n.12
Kuwait, 2
Kwajalein Atoll, 344, 345
Laagers. See Wagon forts
Laden, Osama bin, 24, 357n.1
Lafayette, Marquis de, 217
Lance, 47, 101—2,109, 153,154, 155,157
Lane, James, 228
Lannes, Jean, 266, 268, 333—35, 367n.3
Lapoype, J. F., 336, 378n.4
Lawrence, T. E. See Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia, 43—45
Lech River, 76-78
Lecourbe, Claude, 331—32, 378n.3
Lee, Robert E.
- at Antietam, 66, 366n.14
- and central position, 124,126-27
- at Chancellorsvilie, 221—22, 224—27
- Civil War tactics, 61—68, 190,191,
- 366n.19, 368n.2
- at Gettysburg, 70—71, 301
- maneuver strategy, 366n.13
- in Mexican War, 73, 188
Leeb, Wilhelm von, 291, 295, 296
Legg, Stuart, 96
Legionaries, 153, 155
Legrand, Claude Juste Alexandre, 265-66, 268
Leningrad (Soviet Union), 290, 291, 296
Leonardo da Vinci, 370n.9
Leonidas (king), 202
Leopold (king), 321
Leo the Wise (emperor), 105, 165, 364n.5, 367n.5
Leuctra. See Battle of Leuctra
Leuthen See Battle of Leuthen
Leyte (Philippines), 348
Libya, 142—43, 174
Liddell Hart, Basil H., 279, 375n.1
Liebenstein, F.K. von, 145—46
Ligny, 134, 369n.8
Lincoln, Abraham, 65, 66, 67, 122—26, 140, 191 93
Line of battle, 248
Lipscombe Bay (escort carrier), 344
List, Wilhelm, 195, 319
Lobau, Georges, 369n.8
Logan, Edward L., 91
Lombardy (Italy), 127, 129—30, 329
Longbow, 8, 41, 54—55, 58—60, 364n.6
Long-range arrows, 109
Longstreet, James, 68, 70—71
Louis XIV (king), 173
Louisbourg (Cape Breton Island), Ludendorff, Erich, 286-89
Lützen. See Battle of Lützen
MacArthur, Douglas, 197—200, 338, 340, 344, 346, 348-51, 353-55, 371n.10
Macedonia, 254—61
Mack, Karl, 262
Mackensen, August von, 286-88, 377n.10
Main lines of resistance (MLRs), 12, 148—49
Majuro (Marshall Islands), 345
Makin Atoll, 343, 344
Malaya, 47
Man, Chu Hoy, 35—36, 38
Maneuvering, 81
Mangudai, 110
Manifest destiny, 184
Manstein, Erich von, 313, 315, 321, 323, 324
Manzikert (Byzantium), 104—7
Mao Zedong, 28—31, 94, 271, 363nn.9—10
Marcellinus, Ammianus, 153
Marcy, Willlam L., 187
Marengo. See Battle of Marengo
Mareth Line, 143, 144, 148
Mariana Islands, 338, 340, 346—48
Maria Theresa (queen of Hungary and Bohemia), 238
Marmont, A. F. L. V. de, 337
Maine River, 276, 281—82
Marshall Islands, 344—46
Martin, Abraham, 311
Maryland, 65—66, 373n.I2
Masséna, André, 129, 331—35, 337
Matchlock musket, 164, 166, 370n.8
Matilda tanks, 320—21
Maurice (emperor), 367n.5
Maurice of Orange (prince), 165, 166
Maxim, Hiram, 280
Maximilian of Bavaria, 79
McClellan, George B., 65—67, 122—27, 191, 366n.14, 368n.2
McDowell, Irwin, 123—26, 140, 368n.2
McCann, Lionel C., 33
McGrail, Thomas M., 89, 91
McGuire, Hunter, 365n.12
Meade, George C., 68, 366n.19
Medes, 99
Melas, Michael, 331—38
Mellenthin, Friedrich-Wilhelm von, 19
Meloy, Guy S. Jr., 89—91, 92
Mercenaries, 80, 165, 238—39
Mesopotamia, 98,181,182, 261
Meuse River, 313, 316
Mexican War, 61, 73, 184—90, 194
Mexico City (Mexico), 184—90
Micromanagement, 16
Middle East, 24, 25, 97
Milan (Italy), 129, 130, 329, 334—35
Miller, Judith, 25
Milroy, Robert H., 125
Minié, Claude-Étienne, 364n.7
Minié-ball rifle, 8, 61—63, 67, 68, 192, 364—65nn.7—8
Minsk (Soviet Union), 293—94
Missiles, 12
Mitanni people, 98
Mithridates, 258
Mitscher, Marc, 345-47
MLRs See Main lines of resistance
Mobility, 14,18, 75, 109, 154, 165, 11 174, 239
Mohammed (shah), 326
Moltke, Helmuth von, 276—77, 280—8, 285—86, 289
M-113 armored personnel carrier, 11
Mongols, 108-18, 326
Montcalm, Louis-Joseph de, 308—9, 311—12
Montgomery, Bernard Law, 142—44, 148
Montmorency River, 310
Moore, Harold, 38
Morales, Juan, 185
Moreau, Jean Victor, 331, 333, 337, 377—78nn.2—3
Mortimer, Roger, 56
Moscow (Russia), 183, 290, 291, 295—99
Moslems. See Islam
Mount Tapotchau, 348
Murat, Joachim, 84, 263
Murngin Aborigines, 94
Musket, 48, 61, 164, 166, 167, 239, 370nn.8—9, 374n.4
Mussolini, Bonito, 142, 174
Nagasaki (Japan), 338
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoleon), 140
Napoleon Bonaparte
- Battle of Austerlitz, 262—69, 376n.11
- Battle of Jena and Auerstädt, 82—85
- Battle of Trafalgar, 248
- Battle of Waterloo, 15, 130—40, 141, 369nn.8—10
- and central position, 127-40, 149, 368n.4, 369n.6
- citizen formations, 81
- defeat of Russians, 86
- as dictator of France, 330
- invasion of Russia, 183
- Jomini on, 7
- maneuvers on enemy rear, 325, 328—38
- as military genius, 7—8, 329
- penetration of enemy position, 253, 269
- principal admonitions, 10
- Spanish campaign, 42, 371n.1
- “strategic battle,” 254, 262
Napoleon cannons, 68
Narses, 48—49, 52, 54
Nash, Robert K., 91
Navarre, Henri, 230, 231
Needle gun, 365n.l0
Nelson, Horatio, 248—50, 330, 375n.10
Netherlands. See Holland
Networks, 360n.7
New Britain Island, 340, 343, 378n.7
New Carthage (Cartagena), 326
New Georgia Island, 340
New Guinea, 339—41, 343, 346
New Ireland Island, 343
New York City, 215, 373n.14
Ney, Michel, 133—37, 139
Nimitz, Chester W., 340, 344—45
Nineveh (Assyria), 100
Nizari Ismailis. See Assassins
Normandy (France), 233
North, Lord, 210
North Africa, 141-48
North Korea, 356, 378n.15
- See also Korean War
Nuclear weapons, 3, 151, 357n.3, 378n.15
Oblique order, 240, 242
Octavian. See Caesar Augustus
Odyssey (Homer), 9
Officer corps, 166
Ogedei Khan, 109, 118
Oglala Sioux, 94
Oil, 194—97, 201
Okinawa, 348
Old Point Comfort, 215, 217, 218
Oman, Sir Charles, 43, 364n.6
Oman, Mullah Mohammed, 150
On War (von Clausewitz), 2
Operation Barbarossa, 290-99
Operation Husky, 327
Osama bin Laden. See Laden, Osama bin
Osning Mountains. See Battle of Teutobunger Wald
Osprey aircraft, 18, 361nn.13—14
Ostrogoths, 49—54, 73
Ott, Karl, 332, 335
Oxenstienna, Axel, 79
Ozawa, Jisabuno, 347
Pacific Fleet, 378n.8
Pacific Islands, 338—48
Pakistan, 72, 118
Palau Islands, 346
Palestinian Authority, 24
Palestinians, 24, 25, 72—73
Panzers, 289—98, 313, 315—22, 328
Pappenheim, Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu, 168, 170, 173
Parmenion, 259, 260
Panthians, 101, 154
Pas de Calais, 328
Paulus, Aemilius, 273—75
Paulus, Friedrich, 195
Peace of Amiens, 337
Peace of Lunéville, 337
Peace of Pressburg, 268
Pearl, Daniel, 362n.4
Pednegal (Mexico), 188—89
Persia, 100 102, 181—82, 202, 255—61
Persian Gulf War (1991), 2, 3, 4, 25, 152, 251
Phalanx, 9, 47, 59, 60, 164, 235, 255, 260
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), 211, 372n.9
Philip II of Macedon, 254 55, 375n.3
Philip VI (king), 56—57
Philippines, 340, 348
Phillips, William, 212
Phoenicia, 258
Pickett, George, 71
Pickett’s Charge, 71, 301—2
Piedmont (Italy), 127—30
Pikes, 164
Pilotless aircraft, 359n.4
Pitt, William, 269, 337
Plains of Abraham, 311
Pleasonton, Alfred, 228
Plei Mei (Vietnam), 36
Pods, 14,16,17, 20
Poitiers. See Battle of Poitiers
Poland, 111—13,167, 289, 290, 312
Polk, James K., 187
Pope, John, 64, 65, 66, 366n.13
Porlier, Juan Diaz, 43
Port Moresby, 339
Portugal, 42
Porus (king), 7, 303—6
Pratzen line, 265—68
Predator unmanned aerial vehicle. 13, 359n.4
Primitive warfare, 270
Prittwitz, Max von, 282, 284—85
Professional soldiers, 80—81, 165
Prussia, 81—85, 92, 238, 282—86
Pusan perimeter, 197, 349, 352, 354
Qi element, 10, 74, 75, 77—78, 83—85, 90, 92
Quadrant Conference, 340, 343
Quatre Bras (Belgium), 132 37
Quebec (Canada), 306 12
Rabaul (New Britain Island), 340, 341, 343, 346
Raids, 270
Rand Corporation, 14
Rappahannock River, 64, 66, 221, 222, 226
Realpolitik, 119
Red Cloud (chief), 94
Reichenau, Walther von, 315
Reinhardt, Georg Hans, 316—18, 321
Rendova Island, 340
Rennenkampf, Pavel, 283—86, 3763
Retreat, 202—31
Rhee, Syngman, 355
Rhine River, 204—5
Rhoesaces, 258
Richmond, Duke of, 133
Richmond (Virginia), 122—23, 140, 191, 221, 368n.2
Robert the Bruce, 40
Robots, 13
Rochambeau, Comte do, 215, 218, 373n. 14
Rodes, Robert E., 228
Rodney, Sir George, 373n.15
Rohr, Willy Martin, 19, 253, 36ln.
Roman Empire, 153—54, 157, 204
Romanus IV Diogenes, 103—7
Rome (ancient), 40, 48—52, 101, 204—9, 272—75
Rommel, Erwin, 15, 140, 142—49, 316, 317, 320, 321, 328
Ronfeldt, David, 14, 16, 17, 18, 21
Rossbach. See Battle of Rossbach
Rouen, Archbishop of, 59
Royal Sovereign (ship), 250
Rules of war
- defend, then attack, 46—73
- making uproar in one place and strik-
- ing in another, 301—23
- new kinds of, 2
- penetrating weak point, 252—69
- as situational, 7
- of Sun Tzu, 9—10,301
- throughout history, 6
- See also Strategy; Tactics
Rumsfeld, Donald H., 119
Rundstedt, Gerd von, 291, 296, 321—22
Rupprecht (prince), 280—81
Russell, Harry, 228
Russell Islands, 340
Russia, 110—11, 183, 262—69,27
- See also Soviet Union
Saddle, 109, 375n.4
St. Clair, Arthur, 212—13
St. Lawrence River, 308
Saipan, 338, 346—47, 348
Sajo River, 116—17
Samarkand, 326
Samsonov, Alexander, 283, 285—88, 376—77nn.9—10
Santa Ana (ship), 250
Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de, 185—90
Saratoga (aircraft carrier), 341
Saratoga (New York). See Battle of
Saratoga
Sarissa, 255, 258
Sarmatians, 101, 109
Saunders, Charles, 310
Savannah (Georgia), 191, 193
Sbeitla (Tunisia), 145, 146
Schlieffen, Alfred von, 276, 283—84
Schlieffen Plan, 275—84, 289
Schwarzenberg, Karl Philipp, 131
Scipio Africanus, 183, 275, 325—26
Scotland, 40, 55—56
Scott, Winfield, 184—88, 190, 194, 201
Scythians, 99—100, 101
Search-and-destroy tactics, 34
Sebastianus, 154
Second Manassas. See Battle of Second Manassas
Second Punic War, 182, 272
Second World War. See World War 11
Sedgwick, John, 222, 225
Segestes, 207
Seljuk Turks, 103—7
Seminary Ridge (Gettysburg), 70
Seoul (South Korea), 349, 351, 354
September 11(2001), 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 40, 357n.1
Serbia, 277—78
Seven Years War, 127, 215, 238, 307
Seydlitz, Friedrich Wilhelm von, 243—44
Sherman, Forrest P., 353
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 190—94, 365n.8
Shield, 158, 255
Shields, James, 126
Shokaku (aircraft carrier), 347
Sicily (Italy), 327—28
Silesia, 238, 247, 307
Simplon Pass, 331, 332
Slocum, Henry W., 222, 224
“Smart” bombs, 12, 369n.1
Smith, Charles B., 367n.5
Smith, Oliver, 203, 372n.1
Smoke bomb, 109
Snail. See Caracole
Solomon Islands, 338, 339, 343
Somalia, 4—5, 95, 355, 358n.5
Sornme River, 302
Sorge, Richard, 298
Soubise, Charles de Rohan (prince), 240—45
Soult, Nicolas Jean, 265—66, 268, 369n.9
South Africa, 43
South Korea, 356
- See also Korean War
South Pacific, 338—43
Soviet Union
- Cuban missile crisis, 3
- and Korean Wan, 198, 349
- Stalingnad, 194 97, 230, 231, 234
- U.S. mid-intensity war against, 33
- World War II, 141—42, 194—97, 289—99
- See also Russia
Spain, 42—43, 164—66, 215, 248
Sparta, 235—37
Spear, 101, 155, 158, 160, 164, 235, 255
Spithridates, 258
Spruance, Raymond A., 343, 347
Stalin, Joseph, 142, 195, 290, 293, 295 98
Stalingrad (Soviet Union), 194—97, 230, 231, 234
Stanhope, Hester, 269
Stanton, Edwin M., 125
Staunton (Virginia), 124—25
Stele of Vultures, 9
Steppe tribes, 95—99, 108—9, 157
Stern, Jessica, 362n.3
Stinger missile, 360n.10, 366n.21
Stirrup, 109, 375n.4
Stoneman, George, 222, 224—25
Storm troop” tactics, 19, 253, 361n.l6
STOVL (short takeoff and vertical landing), 359n.6
Stradella defile (Italy), 332, 334, 335, 337, 328
Strategicon (Emperor Maurice), 367n.5
Strategy
- blocking enemy’s retreat, 202-31
- central position, 121—51)
- definition of, 8
- destroying means by which enemy can
- resist, 180—201
- Fabian, 40, 183, 273, 275
- maneuvers on enemy rear, 325-56
- See also Rules of war; Tactics
Stuart, Jeb, 64, 224, 226, 229
Stuka dive-bombers, 313, 315, 322
Subedei Bahadur, 108-18
Suchet, Louis Gabriel, 332
Suez Canal, 141
Sugar Loaf Hill, 212, 373n.10
Suicide bombers, 24, 25, 72—73
Sung, Kim Il, 86
Sun Tzu, 9—10, 30, 74, 301, 312—13, 324
Swarming and the Future of Conflict (Arquilla and Ronfeldt), 14
Swarming tactics, 14—22
Sweden, 76, 167, 171
Sword, 153, 155, 157, 167
Tactica (Leo the Wise), 105, 165, 364n.5, 367n.5
Tactics
- caldron battles, 270—300
- definition of, 8
- feigned retreat, 94—120
- fine-and-maneuver, 4,19, 75, 253
- holding one place, striking another, 74—93
- landing overwhelming blow, 232—5 1
- new forms of, 2
- search-and-destroy, 34
- striking at enemy weakness, 23-45
- swarming, 14—22
- of terrorists, 72
- See also Strategy
Taejon (South Korea), 86—88
Taepyong-ni (South Korea), 87—90, 92
Taginae. See Battle of Taginae
Taisho (aircraft carrier), 347
Taiwan, 198, 351
Taliban, 12, 16, 25, 93, 149, 152, 179, 180, 201, 232, 251, 300, 303, 355, 359n.4
Tanks, 174—77, 289—90, 313, 320—21, 370—71n.11
Tannenberg. See Battle of Tannenberg
Tarawa Atoll, 343, 344, 845
Tarchaniotes, Joseph, 104
Task Force Smith, 86, 367n.5
Taureg tribesmen, 270—71
Taxila (India), 303
Taylor, Zachary, 185
Tebessa (Tunisia), 146—48
Technology, 230
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 238
Tercios, 164-67,169
Terrorism
- cells, 27—28
- and citizen registration, 362n.5
- and fear, 362n.3
- imitation of guerrilla tactics, 23—24, 26
- irrationality of, 24
- lack of domestic support, 28
- methods to destroy, 27
- murder of Pearl, 362n.4
- and nuclear weapons, 31
- prevention against, 20
- pursuit of, to sources, 26
- September 11 (2001), 1, 5, 8, 357n.1
- surprise as key element of, 3
- tactics of, 72
Tet offensive (Vietnam), 39
Teutoburger Wald. See Battle of Teutoburger Wald
Teutonic Knights, 282—83
Thebes (Greece), 235—37, 255
Theodora (empress), 48
Theodoric (king), 49
Theodosius (emperor), 156
Thirty Years War, 167
Thrace, 154, 156
Thucydides, 9
Tiberius, 205, 209, 372n.4
Tilly, Johan de, 76—78, 92, 93, 168-72
Timoshenko, Semen, 297
Tinian Island, 338, 346
Torstensson, Lennart, 169
Totila (king), 52, 53, 364
Trafalgar. See Battle of Trafalgar
Transylvania, 115
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 190
Tribal warfare, 270— 71
Tripoli (Libya), l42—43
Truk (Caroline Islands), 340, 345—46
Truman, Harry, 197 200, 353—55
T-34 tanks, 293
Tully, Robert, .38
Tunisia, 143—49
Turin (Italy), 129
Turks. See Seljuk Turks
Tyre, siege of, 261
UAVs. See Unmanned aerial vehicles
Ukraine, 290, 293, 296
Ultimate Terrorists, The (Stern), 362n.3
United States
- in Afghanistan, 13, 16, 25, 75, 93, 149, 150, 152, 180, 181, 201, 229, 232, 251, 300, 355, 359n.4
- Cuban missile crisis, 3
- march on Mexico City, 184—90
- September 11(2001), 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 40,
- 357n.1
- in Somalia, 4—5, 355 56, 358n.5
- terrorist declaration against, 357n.1
- See also specific wars
United States Ford, 221, 224, 226, 227, 229
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), 13
Valencia, Gabriel, 188—89
Valens (emperor), 154—56
Vandenberg, Hoyt 5., 353
Vann, John Paul, 34
Varro, Terentius, 272—75, 276, 287
Varus, Publius Quintilius, 205-8, 229
Veracruz (Mexico), 184, 185
Victor, Claude P., 335, 336
Victory (ship), 249
Vietnam War, 6,16,17, 29—39, 94, 150, 152, 203-4, 230, 363n.14
Villeneuve, Pierre de, 248, 249, 375n.10
Virginia, 64—66, 122—27, 191, 215—20, 373n.12
Vogelkop Peninsula, 346
Volga River, 194, 196
Volunteer armies, 81
von Clausewitz, Carl, 2
V-22 Osprey, 18, 361nn.13—14
Wadlington, Robert L., 88—89
Wagon folk, 205
Wagon forts, 153, 154-55, 205
Walled cities, 163—64, 363n.21, 364n.2 Wallenstein, Albrecht von, 76—80,168,
Walter, Walton H., 86
War(s)
- conventional, 12, 151
- future, 2, 8
- new kind of, 1—10
- as political act, 2—3
- revolution in, 11—22
- See also Rules of war; Strategy; Tactics; specific battles and wars
- War Before Civilization (Keeley), 270 Washington, George, 211, 215, 217, 218, 220, 307, 373n.14
Waterloo. See Battle of Waterloo
Weapons
- accurate and powerful, 11, 149, 359n.4, 361n.15
- defensive and offensive, 47, 280, 366n.21
- efforts at imitating enemy’s. 46—47
- employing superior, 151—79
- nuclear, 3,151, 357n.3
- standoff, 12, 356
- See also specific weapons
Wellford, Charles, 227
Wellford, Charles C., 226—27
Wellington, Duke of, 131—36, 138-40, 369n.6, 371n.1
Wenceslas (king), 113, 114
Westmoreland, William C., 35, 39
Wheel-lock musket, 166, 3700.9
Wheel-lock pistol, 165, 370n.9
Whistling arrows, 109
Wietersheim, Gustav von, 318
William Louis of Nassau (prince), 166
William of Normandy, 5-6,158-62, 370n.5
Wilson, Woodrow, 277
Winstead, Otho T., 91
Wittigis (king), 50, 51, 52
Wolfe, James, 306—12
Wolmi-do Island, 354
World War I, 8, 195, 276—89, 302
World War II
- Battle of Britain, 21
- campaign in Sicily, 327—28
- defeat of France, 3 12—23
- German invasion of Soviet Union, 289—99
- hedgerows at Normandy, 233
- Jedburghs, 27
- Pacific Fleet, 378n.8
- in Pacific Islands, 338—48
- Rommel, 142—48, 174—77
- Stalingrad, 194-97, 230, 231, 234
- weapons in, 151
Wren, Christopher Percival, 270
Xenophon, 9, 202, 203
Xerxes (king), 202
X-45 combat aerial vehicle, 13
Yalu River, 198, 351
Yemen, 95
Yorktown. See Battle of Yorktown
Zheng element, 10, 74, 75, 77—78, 83—85, 89, 90, 92
Zhukov, Georgy, 299
Ziethen, Hans Ernst von, 132, 133