RUSI JournalVOLUME 166ISSUE 6/7members only

Manoeuvre is Dead? Understanding the Conditions and Components of Warfighting

US Marines surrounding an artillery piece shortly after firing. The terrain is in open country with brown earth.

US Marines firing at Fallujah, Iraq, during the Second Battle of Fallujah, 2004. The battle has wrongly been seen as an example of manoeuvrism. Courtesy of US Marine Corps/Samantha L Jones


Contrary to its advocates, manoeuvre is not the future of warfare.

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