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Union army

United States.
See also specific wars and events

Korea and

Soviet Union and

terrorism in

in World War II

unpredictability

unsatisfied, remaining

urgency and desperation, sense of

Ustinov, Dmitri

Utilization Technique

van Creveld, Martin

Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelius

Varro, Terentius

Vegetius

Velazquez, Diego de

Verona, battle for

Vertigo

Vettori, Francesco

Vicksburg, Union takeover of

Victor-Emmanuel

victory(ies)

cost of

culminating point of

gradations of

psychological nature of

Pyrrhic

small, building on

Vietcong

Vietnam

France and

United States and.
See
Vietnam War

Vietnam War

camouflage in

center-of-gravity example from

as grand strategy example

Johnson and

as morality war

public opinion on

Tet Offensive

violence, avoiding

visualization

Vo Nguyen Giap.
See
Giap, Vo Nguyen

vulnerability.
See
weakness(es)

Wallace, William

War Department, U.S.

war/warfare.
See also
conflict;
specific wars

ancient

arguments against

of attrition

controlling

as crusade

declaring

defensive.
See
defensive warfare

ending.
See
exits and endings

external vs. internal front

fortress defense in

frontal battles

gods of.
See also specific gods
history of

last

maneuver.
See
maneuver warfare

moral.
See
moral warfare/warriors

negotiation and, comparison between

organizational.
See
organizational war

peasants'

physical aspects of

as politics by other means

present

with the self.
See
self-directed warfare

self-destructive patterns in

of self-interest

speed and mobility in

unconventional.
See
unconventional warfare

Warner Bros.

Warriors: Warfare and the Native American Indian
(Bancroft Hunt)

Wasserman, James

Wavell, Archibald

Way to Victory, A: The Annotated Book of Five Rings
(Ochiai)

weakness(es)

appearance of

disguising

pinpointing

psychological

signs of

use in envelopment

as virtues

Weathermen

Wei (warring state of China)

wei wu
(action through inaction)

West, Mae

Westbrook, Adele

Westmoreland, William C.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Wiles of War, The: 36 Military Strategies from Ancient China
(Sun)

Williams, Davey

Williams, Ted

intelligence gathering by

Wilson, Woodrow

Windigokan (Ojibwa warrior society)

Women, The

words

lack of power of

power through

workplace, group dynamics in

World Restored, A
(Kissinger)

World Trade Center attack (2001)

World War I

Arabs in

East African front

France in

Germany in

Great Britain in

inner-front strategy in

Middle Eastern theater

planted information in

Turkey in

World War II

African front

camouflage in

D-Day

deception strategies in

forcing strategy in

France in

Germany in

Great Britain in

Italy in

Japan in

London Blitz

Pearl Harbor bombing

public opinion during

Russia in

Soviet Union in

Spain in

United States in

Xenophon

Xerxes I, king of Persia

Yakkoku

Yamanouchi, Lord

Yang Hu

Yawkey, Tom

Yom Kippur War

Yoriyasu

Yu the Sage

Zama, Africa

Zeus

Zia ul-Haq

Zukor, Adolph

Zulus, British war with

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