Product Description: "Phantom Soldier" is now on the U.S. Army's most prestigious pre-deployment reading list for a reason. It won't please those who have come to believe that wars are won and casualties limited through technology, or that the victor's version of one is always correct...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines how maneuver-warfare theory has been applied in military campaigns throughout history and discusses the importance of maneuver warfare as the key to dominating low-intensity conflicts (view table of contents)

Essays discuss the concept of maneuver warfare as a solution to the problem of smaller military forces and reduced budgets

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Maneuver warfare, often controversial and requiring operational and tactical innovation, poses perhaps the most important doctrinal questions currently facing the conventional military forces of the U.S. Its purpose is to defeat the enemy by disrupting the opponent's ability to react, rather than by physical destruction of forces...read more