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| | The Russian Way of War: Operational Art, 1904–1940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Dramatic advances in the practice of war, including the expansion of armies, increased weapons range and lethality, and the advent of modern command and control, necessitated changes in military thought. |
 | | He argues that significant increases across several indices amounted to a qualitative change in the military art and that the Soviets developed new terminology and concepts to confront this change. |
 | | He attempts to distance his discussion of Russian and Soviet operational art from parallel developments in Germany, notably blitzkrieg, on the grounds that "blitzkrieg is, at heart, a strategy for waging war, while operational art is subordinate to strategy" (emphasis in original, p. |
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