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... from the French by Gerard Hopkins, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1968, p. 42. 111 Naveh, In Pursuit of Military Excellence: The Evolution of Operational Theory, p. xvii.industrial conditions, the development of operativnyi in the Soviet Union represented the most significant advance in the evolution of continental strategy since the Napoleonic wars.A group of outstanding Soviet military theorists-including M. N. Tukhachevsky, Alexsandr Svechin, N. E. Varfolomeev, G. S. Isserson and V. K. Triandaffilov-codified the theoretical basis for the development of the operational level of war and for the concept of the operational art, both of which sought to redefine the purpose of battle in industrial conditions.112 What united these theorists was a common belief in what one scholar has called 'the demise of the decisive general engagement'.113 ...
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