This publication is a collection of the author's articles and essays on selected aspects of operational warfare written in the forms of notes or drafts since the mid-1990s. The author's principal aim is to explain in some detail the most important theoretical and practical aspects of operational warfare conducted by multiservice and multinational forces in high-intensity conventional conflicts.

"This publication replaces the fourth draft of NWC 1035C, On Operational Art printed in September 1999."--Preface. "NWC 1004."