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- While Brett Devereaux is excellent, he’s sharing a surface level, black and white definition suited to a blog post aimed at laymen, the kind that want to read about the siege of Gondor. Biddle’s Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle is a much more in depth treatment of the topic that is hardly that prescriptive.
Edit: if you are so inclined, Commanding Military Power: Organizing for Victory and Defeat on the Battlefield by Ryan Grauer, The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver Warfare Theory and Airland Battle by Robert Leonhard, and Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century by Jonathan House would provide a more rounded view of the academic debate. The latter is particularly relevant because it looks at Russia’s tactics in Chechnya.
- I used to have a lot more time for non CS reading and actually made an Amazon list on this topic back in 2005:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/2INJSM38...
1. On War (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Carl Von Clausewitz
2. Leadership: The Warrior's Art by Barry R. McCaffrey
3. Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach by Dandridge M. Malone
4. The Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat by James R. McDonough
5. The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver-Warfare Theory and AirLand Battle by Robert Leonhard
6. Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian) by B. H. Liddell Hart
7. The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli
8. Hagakure: The Book of the Samauri by Tsunetomo Yamamoto
9. The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
10. The Art of War (Shambhala classics) by Sun Tzu
11. The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
12. Evolutionary Game Theory by Jörgen W. Weibull
13. On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Tse-tung
14. The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides
15. The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus
16. The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon
17. Plutarch: Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans (Modern Library Series, Vol. 1) by Plutarch
18. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch
19. Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 1-5) by Titus Livy
20. The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy
- Interesting article, but I've read Leonhard’s book The Art of Maneuver and it does a much better job of explaining all of this and especially putting it in context than Ender's Game does. And includes some very additional interesting ideas such as classifying weapons by what sort of behavior they'll induce in your enemy as the enemy tries to avoid or defeat them.
