The proponents of maneuver warfare warned that this was the type favoured by the Warsaw Pact.
These officers, scrambling to bring order to Mosul, Fallujah, and Baghdad, had been trained and equipped to fight against numbered, mechanized regiments in open-maneuver warfare.
Just as the air campaign would rely on precision-guided munitions to an unprecedented extent, so, too, would the ground offensive build on the concept called maneuver warfare.
Paul Krugman's point about the shifting rationale for a war against Iraq ("Stocks and Bombs," column, Sept. 13) is a reminder of one of the key principles of maneuver warfare theory.
These ideas of military reform -- maneuver warfare, a focus on strategy, advancement of imaginative officers who take initiative on the battlefield, production of quicker, more durable weapons -- can form the basis for a 21st-century defense policy.
General DeFreitas called it "a challenge for the U.S. military to use tools, well designed for maneuver warfare, against an insurgency," adding, "Insurgents don't show up in satellite imagery very well".
That dash to Baghdad by the 3rd Infantry Division was classic maneuver warfare, bypassing the cities and getting straight to the heart of the enemy center of gravity, pressuring Baghdad on the third day, rather than sort of lumbering across the Iraqi lowlands and fighting for a city at a time.
Its character, its problems in 1943), in which he predicted the return of the maneuver warfare.
Liddell Hart credited Sherman with mastery of maneuver warfare (also known as the "indirect approach"), as demonstrated by his series of turning movements against Johnston during the Atlanta Campaign.
Operation Cobra transformed the high-intensity infantry combat of Normandy into rapid maneuver warfare, and led to the creation of the Falaise pocket and the loss of the German position in northwestern France.
