...fires put out, and latrines and kitchen pits covered. CHAPTER XI. COMBAT. GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 378. The ultimate objective of all military operations...enemy's will to war and forces him to sue for peace. 379. Concentration of superior forces, both on the ground and in the air, at the decisive place and...

...particular objective. But since we are here concerned with morale in war — and since it is axiomatic that, "The ultimate objective of all military operations is the destruction of the enemy's armed forces in battle," then this "mental state of an army" in which we are concerned is the attitude of the army...

...subject during the interwar years. Surface commanders continued to support the Clausewitzian view that "the ultimate objective of all military operations...destruction of the enemy's armed forces by battle." Air leaders were firmly convinced that strategic aviation would be decisive in a future war. The official...

...Department endorsed this doctrine when the 1923 revision of the Field Service Regulations. US Army, stated: "The ultimate objective of all military operations is the destruction of the enemy's armed forces in battle. Decisive defeat in battle breaks the enemy's will to resist and forces him to sue for peace."...

...of war, for by their very nature they are immutable. I refer particularly to the principle that the objective of all military operations is the destruction of the enemy's armed forces and his will to fight. What the General has said here is that the ultimate determinant of military...

...of all military operations is the destruction of the enemy's armed forces in battle. Decisive defeat breaks the enemy's will to war and forces him to sue for peace which is the national aim." Commenting on this affirmation, Captain Reuben E. Jenkins of the First...

...concept of positional warfare in which, as the American strategist Rear Admiral JC Wylie has pointed out, 'the ultimate objective of all military operations is the destruction of the enemy's armed forces and his will to fight'. 4 This is usually accomplished through the conduct of sustained battles in...

...view was reiterated in the 1923 edition of the US Army's Field Service Regulations which declared that the 'ultimate objective of all military operations is the destruction of the enemy's armed forces by battle'.15 Likewise, in his annual report for 1919 the army's war-time Chief of Staff, Peyton C. March,...

...remained unchanged from the one specified in the 1923 Field Service Regulations: "The ultimate ohjective of all military operations is the destruction of the enemy's armed forces in battle.""' Doctrinal development, however, remained secondary to the development of manpower mobilization...

...at every level a fire element, a maneuver element, and a reserve. Stanton. Order of Battle, 8. 19. "The ultimate objective of all military operations is the destruction of the enemy's armed forces in battle." "Through offensive action a commander exercises his initiative, preserves his freedom of...