"On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level of war and operational art from the Napoleonic Wars to today, viewing them through the lens of Prussia/Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States"-- Provided by publisher.

Operations and the Napoleonic Revolution -- German Operational Thought -- Soviet Operational Thought -- American Operational Thought -- The Operational Level and the Civil-Military Relationship -- A Theory of Operational Art -- Administration -- Information -- Operations -- Fire Support -- Logistics -- Command and Control -- Campaigns, Battles, and Decision -- Campaign Taxonomy I -- Campaign Taxonomy II -- Operational Art Actualized through a Modern Staff System -- A Note on Force Protection.