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    Tactical Victory Leading To Operational Failure: Rommel In North Africa
    Tactical Victory Leading To Operational Failure: Rommel In North Africa
    Tactical Victory Leading To Operational Failure: Rommel In North Africa
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    Tactical Victory Leading To Operational Failure: Rommel In North Africa

    By Major Jeffrey L. LaFace

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    Since the end of the Cold War, the worldview is that the US is presently the only superpower. The expectation, within the Department of Defense and the world's other military institutions, is that this status will exist for the next twenty years or until the year 2020. Even as the world's only superpower, the U. military has adopted a formal approach to joint and coalition warfare as the methodology to fight future military conflicts. This is for two reasons. The first reason is to gain world and national political consensus and legitimacy for any operation requiring the use of US military forces. The second reason is even the military resources of the US are limited and we must conduct military operations as part of a joint coalition force in order to reach our and the coalition's political endstate.
    This monograph asks the question: Can tactical victories guarantee the accomplishment of the coalition's operational aim? This monograph will use the example of the Afrika Korps in North Africa to answer this question. The purpose of the monograph is to show the outcome when a more militarily capable member of a coalition dictates the conduct of military operations. This consideration is relevant to the US Army due to our superpower status and our military capabilities relative to the rest of the world's military organizations. The monograph will show that Rommel's reliance on the tactical level of war and his lack of an operational understanding of what he was attempting to accomplish lead to their defeat in North Africa. Rommel's conducted tactical operations because he was not trained for or capable of conducting operational art. Because of this, he failed to support the strategic and operational aims of the political and military leadership. He lacked the cognitive creativity and therefore, the tension to support his government. Rommel's opportunism led to many victories on the battlefield but ultimately had an adverse effect on the Axis war effort.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLucknow Books
    Release dateAug 15, 2014
    ISBN9781782898047
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      Tactical Victory Leading To Operational Failure - Major Jeffrey L. LaFace

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      Tactical Victory Leading to Operational Failure: Rommel in North Africa

      By

      MAJ Jeffrey L. LaFace, United States Army

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 3

      Abstract 4

      PREFACE — ENTER THE GREAT CAPTAIN? 5

      INTRODUCTION 7

      Chapter One — LINKING POLICY TO TACTICS 10

      POLICY, STRATEGY AND STRATEGIC ART 10

      THE OPERATIONAL LEVEL OF WAR, OPERATIONAL ART AND OPERATIONAL DESIGN 12

      TACTICIZATION OF STRATEGY 17

      Chapter Two — BLITZKRIEG: EVOLUTION OF TACTICS TO HYPER-TACTICS 19

      Chapter Three — ROMMEL AND THE TACTICIZATION OF STRATEGY 22

      GERMAN STRATEGY FOR NORTH AFRICA 22

      ROMMEL'S LACK OF AN OPERATIONAL DESIGN 23

      CONCLUSION 26

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 27

      BIBLIOGRAPHY 28

      Abstract

      Since the end of the Cold War, the worldview is that the United States is presently the only superpower. The expectation, within the Department of Defense (DOD) and the world's other military institutions, is that this status will exist for the next twenty years or until the year 2020. Even as the world's only superpower, the United States military has adopted a formal approach to joint and coalition warfare as the methodology to fight future military conflicts. This is for two reasons. The first reason is to gain world and national political consensus and legitimacy for any operation requiring the use of US military forces. The second reason is even the military resources of the United States are limited and we must conduct military operations as part of a joint coalition force in order to reach our and the coalition's political endstate.

      This monograph asks the question: Can tactical victories guarantee the accomplishment of the coalition's operational aim? This monograph will use the example of the German Afrika Korps in North Africa to answer this question. The purpose of the monograph is to show the outcome when a more militarily capable member of a coalition dictates the conduct of military operations. This consideration is relevant to the United States Army due to our superpower status and our military capabilities relative to the rest of the world's military organizations. The monograph will show that Rommel's reliance on the tactical level of war and his lack of an operational understanding of what

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