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	Book Reviews
		Citino clearly points out that the German advances in operational warfare (that is, finally being able to score decisive victory) in the interwar period were firmly rooted in the traditions of Moltke the Elder.
		Still, the Americans got a taste of decisive victory, and Citino correctly concludes that the taste was enough to focus the American army on operational warfare for the remainder of the century.
		Reactions to the Tet offensive, for example, are good case studies in operational warfare, emphasizing decisive maneuver (and saw the introduction of the helicopter as a new source of that maneuver).
	www.uni.edu /~licari/review19.htm (1508 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Naval Mine Warfare: Operational and Technical Challenges for Naval Forces (2001)
		Naval Mine Warfare: Operational and Technical Challenges for Naval Forces Finally, an integrated combat weapon system (ICWS) is in development for the MCM and MHC classes that will upgrade the core signal-processing and display equipment to a common console (commercial off-the-shelf open architecture) and integrate all systems on a fiber-optic local area network.
		Operational and Technical Issues for Ship Signature Reduction Developments on Warships To maintain their designed signatures, warships (submarines and surface combatants) must be well maintained, and those with magnetic signatures must periodically pass through USN degaussing ranges (a half dozen are located at various continental United States bases plus Hawaii and Yokosuka, Japan).
		Naval Mine Warfare: Operational and Technical Challenges for Naval Forces Science and Technology Initiatives The results from several crosscutting SandT programs—especially investigations focusing on synthetic aperture sonar and UUV technology—will have a positive impact on reducing the current gaps in capability for both the offshore and inshore regimes.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309075785/html/70.html (8919 words)

	Royal Air Force Waddington Station Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Air Warfare Centre was established in October 1993 to meet this need by merging several specialist organisations and was given the task of providing integrated mission support at the operational, tactical and technical levels to commanders and to the front-line.
		The Air Warfare Centre Mission is to contribute to the military capability of Strike Command (STC) by developing and implementing operational and tactical doctrine and providing essential and timely integrated mission support to RAF operational units in peace and in war.
		Operational level Doctrine and Development (DandD) issues are addressed as part of the remit of the Doctrine and Collective Training staff of the Operations Division, in addition to their responsibilities for providing (in conjunction with the Liaison Officers from the RN, Army and USAF) operational support to air and joint headquarters and training tasks.
	www.raf.mod.uk /rafwaddington/airwarfarecenter.html (779 words)

	JMO Study Guide: BLOCK I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Operational art emerged as the result of the cumulative influences of military technological advances, societal changes, coupled with changes in the character and practice of war, and the writings of the leading military theoreticians on the campaigns of the great military leaders.
		An operational idea should describe, in broad terms, the major forces to be employed and their movement to the objective area and the sequence of events necessary to accomplish the assigned strategic or operational objectives.
		Operational decisions will often have to be made by the commander on the basis of his own instinctive judgment and without the benefit of a careful analysis of the situation that weighs all the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative COA.
	cce.nwc.navy.mil /syllabus-jmo/block1.htm (13893 words)

	US NAVAL SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES
		Naval Special Warfare (NSW), provides an effective means to apply counterforce in conjunction with national policy and objectives in peacetime and across the spectrum of hostilities from peacetime operations to limited war to general war.
		SEAL operators assigned to a SDV Team must also complete SDV school which is generally attended enroute to, or within three months of arrival at their new command.
		The mission of an SBU is to employ, operate and maintain a variety of surface combatant craft to conduct and support naval and joint special operations, riverine warfare, and coastal patrol and interdiction.
	www.fas.org /irp/agency/dod/socom/sof-ref-2-1/SOFREF_Ch4.htm (6252 words)

	Vision...Presence...Power (Chapter 2 continued)
		To ensure that the needed operational capabilities are sustained, during the past six years the Navy and Marine Corps have realigned their organizational structures and program assessment and planning processes to be congruent with the Defense Department's and Joint Chiefs of Staff's assessment and decision-making architectures.
		Likewise, the Naval Services' littoral warfare capabilities must be enhanced, while simultaneously preserving their ability to conduct sustained blue-water operations, in a way that complements and takes advantage of unique capabilities of other services and those of our allies and friends.
		Likewise, the Anti-Submarine Warfare Division (N84) provides senior-level oversight of a highly complex and difficult warfare area that extends across all Navy "platform" communities and is a critical element in both littoral and open-ocean warfighting.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/policy/vision/vis99/v99-ch2a.html (3820 words)

	Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Army Field Manual 3-0, Operations, June 2001, defines operational warfare as “the level at which campaigns and major operations are conducted and sustained to accomplish strategic objectives within theaters or areas of operations.
		Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm examines warfare in the mid to late twentieth century through the prism of this definition (even though Robert Citino, the author, does not say as much) to determine how modern armies attempt to produce decisive results—the elusive goal of operational warfare.
		Such reporting tends to degrade a viewer’s understanding of the operational level of warfare, replacing it with an insatiable taste for sound bites and film clips, taking all who indulge in them down a path of snap judgments and decisions based on opinion polls.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/bookrev/citino.html (1019 words)

	Command and Control Warfare: An Operational Imperative In The Information Age
		Thesis: That waging successful information war is how wars will be won in the future and that the key to operational success by military forces in information war is in the strategy and target set known as Command and Control Warfare (C2W).
		For example, during Operation Desert Storm, the Marine Corps local area network processed 1.3 million electronic mail messages in the first 36 hours of the ground war.
		awareness is the poisonous tree, the disaster of his related operations its bitter fruit.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1997/Lynes.htm (7676 words)

	Powell's Books - Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare (Modern War Studies) by Robert ...
		Although the Wehrmacht ultimately succumbed to superior Allied firepower in a two-front war, its stunning operational achievement left a lasting impression on military commanders throughout the world, even if their own operations were rarely executed as effectively.
		He also provides one of the first scholarly analyses of Operation Iraqi Freedom, showing that its plan was curiously divorced from the realities of military history, grounded instead on nebulous theories about expected enemy behavior.
		Throughout Citino points to the importance of mobility--especially mobilized armor--in modern operational warfare and assesses therespective roles of firepower, training, doctrine, and command and control mechanisms.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0700613005 (342 words)

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		It is implemented during "joint military operations when U.S. military forces unilaterally or as part of an allied/coalition force are opposed or threatened by an organized military or paramilitary force." (Note 14) C2W focuses on an adversary's military command and control when military force is applied.
		As the head of a CERT team stated, "the problem...is a lack of understanding and awareness and a lack of training and technical competence on the part of the user community." (Note 21) The "Red Team" is a laudable objective, but ASD(C3I) presently only coordinates and does not direct action.
		Training the force, particularly operators and system administrators on the defensive aspects of IW, must be tackled in the near term and enable the military to function more effectively in this new environment.
	www.ndu.edu /inss/siws/ch4.html (5822 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Students learn to integrate seemingly disparate disciplines (national security affairs, information warfare/operations, computer science, physics (kinetic warfare), and operations analysis) into a cogent operations plan as an integral part of a theater campaign plan.
		Those microwave devices most important in radar and in electronic warfare systems are studied, including magnetrons, traveling-wave tubes, and solid-state diodes.
		Histograms and empirical distributions and random variables are introduced along with their probability distributions and associated characteristics such as moments and percentiles.
	www.nps.navy.mil /isnps/IS_Courses.asp?CurriculaID=2 (1420 words)

	Marine Corps Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		BLITZKRIEG TO DESERT STORM: The Evolution of Operational Warfare.
		A prolific writer on armored warfare, especially the German experiences through World War II, Citino takes on the topic of the operational level of warfare that has become so popularized in recent decades.
		Marine Corps readers will not like Citino’s utter neglect of Marine Corps operations in the campaigns he describes, although featuring photos in the book of the operations at Naktong, Inchon, Khe Sahn, and Hue.
	www.mca-marines.org /Gazette/2005/05estes2BR.html (489 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The realignment will more accurately match NSW active-duty operational requirements with NSW Reservist skills and expertise, to provide a seamless integration of active and Reserve personnel.
		Today’s volatile global environment and NSW’s active participation in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom and the global war on terrorism (GWOT), have dictated the need for the Reserve force.
		May 16, Rear Adm. Albert Calland, commander, Naval Special Warfare Command, approved the proposed realignment, moving the project forward towards its execution stage and final implementation in 2004.
	www.news.navy.mil /search/display_word.asp?story_id=9941 (568 words)

	military art - StormingMedia
		Operational Art Considerations for Army Air and Missile Defense: Lessons from the Oct Date: 22 MAY 2003
		Operational Assessment - The Achilles Heel of Effects-Based Operations?
		Operational Fires: Improving Doctrine to Apply the Operational Art to Fires Date: 04 FEB 2002
	www.stormingmedia.us /keywords/military_art.html (1316 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Despite all of the new technology, the rules of warfare always remain the same.
		The second part of the book, Citino praises the personal freedom allowed officers to conduct battle in the Israeli and Indian armies and writes about the lackluster performance of the Iraqi and Iranian armies that lacked competent officers.
		In the closing chapters of the book, Citino believes that the victory in Operation Desert Storm was due to superior firepower as well as tactics while Operation Iraqi Freedom was dangerously based on the assumption of internal rebellion and was eventually won by the use of armor.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0700613005 (476 words)

	Naval Special Warfare Reshapes Reserves
		NSWG-1 Reserve Det. 219, homeported in Port Hueneme, Calif. is a Naval Reserve combat support detachment which provides support to active duty Naval Special Warfare commands while forward deployed.
		Two new Naval Special Warfare (NSW) operational support teams will be commissioned later in October: Operational Support Team 1 in California and Operational Support Team 2 in Virginia.
		For more information on Naval Special Warfare, visit the Web site: www.seal.navy.mil.
	www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=9941 (673 words)

	Howe: The Electronic Warfare Operation Support Centre Database
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		US Spelling of The Electronic Warfare Operation Support Center (EWOSC) Database - A User Perspective
	www.argospress.com /jbt/Volume2/2-2-3.htm (141 words)

	Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm
		Throughout Citino points to the importance of mobility—especially mobilized armor—in modern operational warfare and assesses the respective roles of firepower, training, doctrine, and command and control mechanisms.
		Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm provides that grounding as it addresses the future of operational-level warfare in the post–9/11 era.
		“Vivid, incisive, laced with trenchant observations, Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm is a remarkable—even brilliant—study of war at the operational level, emphasizing the importance of intangibles and the elusiveness of decisive victory.”--Andrew J. Bacevich, author of American Empire
	www.kansaspress.ku.edu /citbli.html (431 words)

	Howe: The Electronic Warfare Operation Support Center Database (US) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Howe: The Electronic Warfare Operation Support Center Database (US)
		View first page of "Howe: The Electronic Warfare Operation Support Center Database"
		British Spelling of The Electronic Warfare Operation Support Centre (EWOSC) Database - A User Perspective
	www.argospress.com /jbt/Volume2/us2-2-3.htm (142 words)

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