Download or read book In Pursuit of Military Excellence written by Shimon Naveh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naveh (history and Russian and eastern European studies, Tel Aviv U.) offers an interpretation of the field of military knowledge between strategy and tactics, operational art. He traces its evolution into a full-fledged theory through the landmarks of 19th-century thought and operational ignorance, the Blitzkrieg concept, the Soviet Deep Operation theory of the 1920s and 1930s, and the crystallization of the American Airland Battle theory in the 1970s and 1980s. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR