The yearlong curriculum concentrated on operational art, with many theories contrasted to old-style campaign planning.
The book focuses on "operational art" rather than grand strategy or the personal emotional experiences of combat.
Recently, the college has focused on the operational art of war, in contrast to the wider, less defined study of national security in previous years.
A primary area of focus was the development of operational art in the Soviet Union.
Soviet military operational art: in pursuit of deep battle.
Broadly speaking, this involves considering offense and defense at three "levels": strategy, operational art, and tactics.
Strategic and operational art are better than eighty percent logistics.
There is an introduction to the operational art, that is the concept and doctrine of campaign fighting at the operational level.
The Soviets, in terms of operational art, were adept at using mobile tank formations.
The operational art, moreover, was not new in the least.