Maneuver Warfare Theory and the Operational Level of War: Misguiding the Marine Corps?

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. S. Lauer
Keyword(s):  
Marine Corps ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Maneuver Warfare

Organizational perspectives on the maneuver warfare movement in the United States Marine Corps: insights from the work of James G. March

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-162
Author(s):  
Mie Augier ◽  
Sean F X Barrett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Marine Corps ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Marine Corps ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Organizational History ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Organizational Scholarship ◽  
Maneuver Warfare

Abstract This article describes a key period in the institutional and organizational history of the United States Marine Corps. Using historical, archival, and interview material, we apply some of the ideas and perspectives of James G. March to understand the organizational dynamics and mechanisms that enabled the maneuver warfare movement and made the modern Marine Corps a more innovative and adaptive organization. We build on and integrate several streams of March’s research, legacies, and interests, including understanding the organizational conditions that help novelty and outlier-ness flourish, finding interest and value in apparent contradictions, and deriving implications for organizational scholarship and for the organization under study.

Sabers through the Reich

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Stuart Nance ◽  
Robert M. Citino
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
World War ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Action ◽  
European Theatre ◽  
Maneuver Warfare ◽  
Actual Size

This work provides a complete battle history of American corps cavalry in World War II. It asserts that these cavalry formations made an outsized contribution to the Allied victory in the European theatre in correlation to their actual size. These cavalry groups made the "90 Division gamble" actually work, allowing American corps and army commanders to mass combat power at the decisive point. Furthermore, this work also highlights the role of the reconnaissance and security battle at the operational level. It demonstrates how this long-overlooked part of military operations is an absolute essential in maneuver warfare. This “battle before the battle” fundamentally shapes the conditions for the main action, yet a thorough study of this fighting has long been ignored in the literature—a failing that this work remedies.

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