Maneuver warfare is a military strategy that emphasizes movement, initiative and surprise, aiming to shatter an enemy's cohesion and decision-making through speed and dislocation rather than to destroy its forces by direct, sustained attrition. Historians trace the practice through the Mongols and Napoleon; as a named, systematically codified doctrine it was articulated by theorists including John Boyd, William S. Lind, Martin van Creveld and Robert Leonhard from the late twentieth century onward. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ClaimVictory comes from disrupting an enemy's decision-making and cohesion through speed, surprise and dislocation rather than from grinding down its forces in direct attrition. 1 Origin Year1985 marks William S. Lind's Maneuver Warfare Handbook, the doctrine's first systematic codification in Western military theory; maneuver warfare as a broader style of war has much older antecedents (the Mongols, Napoleon), which this atlas records as historical practice under separate entities rather than as this doctrine's own founding date. Classification
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1. Wikipedia: Maneuver Warfare
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a military strategy which emphasizes movement, initiative and surprise to achieve a position of advantage
- Traced through the Mongols and Napoleon, both land warfare, per the entity's own sourced description.
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: William S. Lind
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William S. Lind published the Maneuver Warfare Handbook in 1985 through Westview Press.
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