Many mid-ranking military officers' knowledge of the larger armed forces comes from experiences in their narrowly assigned fields.

These are the Political, Strategic, Operational, and Tactical levels of war. I will use examples from World War II in order to level the playing field and convey these ideas in their most basic ...

A historical analysis of the operational level of war during the 1967 War. On 9 June 1967, the fifth day of the Six-Day War, the Israeli Defense Forces launched a frontal attack on the Syrian army’s ...

Kyiv is hoping that being able to hit targets inside Russia will give it the strategic edge it has lacked until now.

But that was one of the things that stands out. Another was that joint warfare was moving from what's called the operational level of war, which generally has to do with the broad sweep of how ...

"The curriculum assists in developing Soldiers as sustainment planners, executors and problem-solvers at the operational level of war," said, Mulkey. "Further, it also equips planners with the ...

Very often, JPME overemphasizes the strategic level of war at the expense of the operational level of war. In this sense, they are asked to consider and ultimately understand the movement of ...

From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

Drones have been less successful at the operational level of war, which is designed to integrate battles into campaigns that achieve broader military objectives. In spring 2022, Ukraine used a TB ...