Widely regarded as the leading military theorist of the early 19th century, Jomini viewed war in precise, almost mathematical terms and believed that an enemy's territory was the primary objective of an army, not the opposing force.
As the capital of Chechnya, Grozny was the chief objective of Russian army forces that entered the republic on December 11 , 1994 in an effort to suppress a separatist Chechen government led by Dzhokhar Dudayev.
Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed.
In 1970s-1980s Guatemala, partly for which former military President Efrain Rios Montt was on trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, the U.S.-devised "National Security Doctrine" guided Guatemalan army objectives to achieve "annihilation of the internal enemy" -- identified as armed guerrilla groups and their indigenous (Maya) support base.
"The army's objective with the children was to eliminate the seed for future guerrillas," Marco Tulio Alvarez, the former director of Guatemala's Peace Archives, testified last week.
But the main objectives of the Pakistani army's traditional policy were never abandoned.
The Kenyan army's main objective is to reach the port city of Kismayo, a Shabab bastion and the source of a $50 million in customs duties.
It was led by Silvio Berlusconi, who when re-elected announced that his objective was to defeat "the army of evil", by which he meant migrants in the Italian precariat.
Spike Millington, chief executive of the nonprofit East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership, based in Incheon, South Korea, says that indiscriminate nest removal is not conducive to the army's stated objective: "Small birds are not a threat to planes, only larger species like gulls and geese are usually involved in airstrikes".
Mehmed then raised a great army with the objective to conquer Wallachia and annex it to his empire.
Technically speaking, Bragg won the Battle of Chickamauga, but he failed to achieve his objectives of destroying Rosecrans's army and recapturing Chattanooga.
