
Remember this definition because this is what TOAW simulates, and it does it well.

The Marshal was killed in the purges and his theories abandoned, but events like Desert Storm and the writings of MSU Nikolai Orgarkov (1917 1994) on the Revolution in Military Affairs gave the tenet a new and permanent lease on life.ĭefinitions abound of course, but the simplest I’ve seen to describe operational art is the use of military and other resources to maneuver friendly forces into battle with the enemy under the most favorable conditions possible.

Although used for centuries, it was Marshal of the Soviet Union (MSU) Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (1893 1937) who codified operational art as a systemic concept in his Provisional Field Regulations of 1936.

Operational art (or in Russian ?) is a level of war between and connecting the tactical battlefield with strategy where national level resources are managed to obtain long range objectives.
