Manoeuvre is Dead?

Abstract

For the better part of the 20th century, manoeuvre held primacy in Western military thinking. Yet, modern technological advances, in today’s period of limited war, have suffocated the conditions and components that manoeuvre requires to exist. As a result, it is dead. Amos C Fox argues that, instead of lamenting this, the defence and security studies communities should celebrate manoeuvre’s death as a liberating event and begin looking at alternative theories and ideas for the prosecution of war.◼