Striking a Balance Between Operational Art and Craftsmanship
In this article via Task & Purpose, author Brad Hardy states that operational art is a cornerstone doctrinal concept that joint headquarters and defence forces use to plan everything from battalion-sized operations through to major campaigns. As such, he argues that its definition is so broad that it is vulnerable to losing its meaning.
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Is the Operational Art Still Relevant?
To stimulate discussion and debate, authors from the Defence Studies Department, Kings College London, have put together a series of articles. In the first article via Defence in Depth, Dr Stuart Griffin argues that both the operational art and the operational level of war are still relevant.
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The Operational Level of War and the Operational Art
In this article, via Defence-In-Depth, Kings College London, two historians Dr Huw Davies and Dr Robert Foley, outline the relevance of the operational art and operational level of war concept to the Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War.
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Operational Art from a Canadian Perspective
The book 'The Operational Art: Canadian perspectives: Context and Concepts', edited by Allan English, Daniel Gosselin, Howard Coombs and Laurence Hickey contains a number of essays that are designed to make a contribution to professional military education.
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Are 'Warbots' Changing the Future of Warfare?
This article by Brian Michelson via The Strategy Bridge discusses the idea that we are relatively accepting of warbots in roles such as reconnaissance, selective strike and logistics support, however there remains a level of discomfort with incorporating warbots into primary combat roles.
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