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    Wavell's Campaigns In The Middle East: An Analysis Of Operational Art
    Wavell's Campaigns In The Middle East: An Analysis Of Operational Art
    Wavell's Campaigns In The Middle East: An Analysis Of Operational Art
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    Wavell's Campaigns In The Middle East: An Analysis Of Operational Art

    By Major Lawrence Rucker Snead III

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    Today the United States confronts an uncertain world. The strategic environment has changed. It no longer has one main enemy and a military force to confront that foe. Instead, the United States must be prepared to deal with a multiple of possible threats as its military continues to downsize. This new regional orientation and world situation requires that the US Military be ready to fight simultaneous major regional contingencies to achieve the victories that the American people expect.
    Therefore, this study examines Field Marshall Wavell’s campaigns in the Middle East in WWII to provide a historical case study of a similar situation. There he had to simultaneously conduct a large number of campaigns and operations over four theaters of operations against different enemies under difficult conditions to achieve strategic objectives. It compares this case study with the current strategic military requirements facing the US and current US Military doctrine to determine if the US is prepared to deal with multiple simultaneous regional contingencies.
    Finally, this monograph indicates that the US Military needs to update both its National Military Strategy and it’s doctrine in order to be prepared to fight and win multiple simultaneous major regional contingencies in the future. In addition, this study has indicated a number of implications for the conduct of operational art by the US Military.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLucknow Books
    Release dateAug 15, 2014
    ISBN9781782897460
    Wavell's Campaigns In The Middle East: An Analysis Of Operational Art

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      Wavell's Campaigns In The Middle East - Major Lawrence Rucker Snead III

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      Wavell’s Campaigns in the Middle East: An Analysis of Operational Art and the Implications for Today

      By

      MAJ Lawrence Rucker Snead III, USA

      ABSTRACT

      Today the United States confronts an uncertain world. The strategic environment has changed. It no longer has one main enemy and a military force to confront that foe. Instead, the United States must be prepared to deal with a multiple of possible threats as its military continues to downsize. This new regional orientation and world situation requires that the US Military be ready to fight simultaneous major regional contingencies to achieve the victories that the American people expect.

      Therefore, this study examines Field Marshall Wavell’s campaigns in the Middle East in WW II to provide a historical case study of a similar situation. There he had to simultaneously conduct a large number of campaigns and operations over four theaters of operations against different enemies under difficult conditions to achieve strategic objectives. It compares this case study with the current strategic military requirements facing the US and current US Military doctrine to determine if the US is prepared to deal with multiple simultaneous regional contingencies.

      Finally, this monograph indicates that the US Military needs to update both its National Military Strategy and it’s doctrine in order to be prepared to fight and win multiple simultaneous major regional contingencies in the future. In addition, this study has indicated a number of implications for the conduct of operational art by the US Military.

      I. INTRODUCTION

      With the history of World War II most students of military history know of the legendary battles and campaigns in the North African desert as the Africa Korps under Field Marshall Erwin Rommel or the Desert Fox repeatedly clashed with the British Eight Army under a series of commanders for control of the Western Desert theater of operations. For two years the tide of battle ebbed and flowed as the Germans and British launched a series of exciting armoured attacks and counterattacks against each other before a combined Anglo-American campaign finally drove the Germans from North Africa.

      However, most American military officers do not realize that the campaigns in the desert were just one component or aspect of a much larger and more complicated British theater of war. From 11 June 1940 with the Italian declaration of war until his relief from command on 22 June 1941, British forces under the command of then General and later Field Marshall Sir Archibald Percival Wavell in their Middle Eastern theater of war conducted 14 major warfighting campaigns or operations and two Operations Other Than War (OOTW) campaigns in four theaters of operations against German, Italian, Vichy French, and Nationalist forces while defending Great Britain’s position in the Middle East(see Annex A and B). The British conducted most of these campaigns in a combined environment and all of the campaigns were joint in nature. Additionally in April and May 1941 the limited British forces simultaneously conducted 10 campaigns across all four theaters of operation.

      This lack of knowledge and understanding about this neglected period and area of World War II is regrettable because of what it can offer to the study of

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