Volume 2, Bringing Order to Chaos: Combined Arms Maneuver in Large Scale Combat Operations, opens a dialogue with the Army. Are we ready for the significantly increased friendly casualties of intense combat amongst large formations, the constant paralyzing stress of continual contact with a peer enemy, and the difficult nature of command and control while attempting division and corps combined arms maneuver to destroy that enemy? The chapters in this volume answer these questions for combat operations while spanning military history from 1917 through 2003. These accounts tell the challenges of intense combat, the drain of heavy casualties, the difficulty of commanding and controlling huge formations in contact, the mandatory effective use of direct and indirect fires, the constant need for high quality leadership, thoughtful application of sound doctrine, and logistical sustainment up to the task. No large scale combat engagement, battle, or campaign of the last one hundred years has been successful without being better than the enemy in these critical capabilities. What can we learn from the past to help us make the transition to ready to fight tonight?

TOC:
Foreword
Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1-Beyond the First Encounter: Planning and Conducting Field Army and Corps Operations by General (Retired) William Wallace and Colonel (Retired) Kevin C.M. Benson.
Chapter 2-Fire and Maneuver: The 2nd Infantry Division's Assault on Korea's "Punchbowl," August-October 1951 by Colonel Bryan R. Gibby.
Chapter 3-Isolate, Encircle, and Destroy: Chinese Operational Maneuver during the First and Second Phase Offensive (October-December 1950) by Major Mike Kiser.
Chapter 4-Lightning on the Water: German Combined Arms Innovation in the Baltic Theatre, Fall 1917 by R. David Pressley II.
Chapter 5-Escaping No Man's Land: Combined Arms Adaptation in the Meuse-Argonne by Major John M. Nimmons.
Chapter 6-Stalemate to Victory: Combined Arms in World War II's New Guinea Campaign by Robert M. Young.
Chapter 7-The 80th Infantry Division's Crossing of the Moselle River: A Case Study in Combined Arms Maneuver by Major Paul P. Cheval.
Chapter 8-Field Artillery and Flying Columns: Combined Arms Ma­neuver in the Advance on and Seizure of Manila, 1945 by Captain James Villanueva.
Chapter 9-Into Cambodia: The 1970 US Cross-Border Campaign by Lieutenant General (Retired) Daniel P. Bolger.
Chapter 10-Egypt vs. Israel: Combined Arms in the Yom Kippur War and the Lessons for the US Army by Tal Tovy.
Chapter 11-Today and Tomorrow: Echelons Above Brigade-Combined Arms Maneuver in Large-Scale Combat Operations by Lieutenant General Michael D. Lundy.
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