Franz-Stefan Gady
Biographic Data
| ID | 5994350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franz-Stefan Gady |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franz-Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gady |
| SIGNATURE | GADY F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
War, Conflict and the Military
War, Conflict and the Military
Making Attrition Work
As the Russia–Ukraine war enters its third year, Ukraine faces a daunting task: how to restore its military advantage. To maximise Ukraine’s chances of eventual victory, Western countries need to recognise that the driving engine of Ukraine’s effectiveness has been a destruction-centred approach. This approach has resulted in high levels of attrition and could prove an important part of the West’s and Ukraine’s theory of victory. The West enjoys …
Ukraine’s Strategy of Attrition
Attrition has been both Ukraine’s and Russia’s primary approach at the tactical level. Ukraine’s preferred way of war centres on the use of artillery fire to facilitate decisive attritional effects on the opposing force, which it then exploits with manoeuvre. This is not unexpected, as most major conventional wars feature attrition as well as manoeuvre and reconstitution. Western assistance has brought Ukraine to an impressive point, but may not …
War, Conflict and the Military
Benjamin M. Jensen, Christopher Whyte and Scott Cuomo. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2022. $49.95. 252 pp
Manoeuvre Versus Attrition in US Military Operations
US insistence that manoeuvre is central to breaking enemy cohesion risks misreading a future operating environment in which defence is dominant and attrition may still play an important role
The US Military’s Enduring ‘German Problem’
The US military has developed a persistent ‘German problem' due to the outsize influence of legendary strategist John Boyd. In a cautionary tale of how poor military history can lead to real-world mistakes, Stephen Robinson, in his book The Blind Strategist, demonstrates that, by basing his ideas on the tendentious work of historian B.H. Liddell Hart in collaboration with a coterie of former Wehrmacht officers, Boyd ingrained in the US military a…
Ukraine’s Strategy of Attrition
Attrition has been both Ukraine’s and Russia’s primary approach at the tactical level. Ukraine’s preferred way of war centres on the use of artillery fire to facilitate decisive attritional effects on the opposing force, which it then exploits with manoeuvre. This is not unexpected, as most major conventional wars feature attrition as well as manoeuvre and reconstitution. Western assistance has brought Ukraine to an impressive point, but may not …
Making Attrition Work
As the Russia–Ukraine war enters its third year, Ukraine faces a daunting task: how to restore its military advantage. To maximise Ukraine’s chances of eventual victory, Western countries need to recognise that the driving engine of Ukraine’s effectiveness has been a destruction-centred approach. This approach has resulted in high levels of attrition and could prove an important part of the West’s and Ukraine’s theory of victory. The West enjoys …
Manoeuvre Versus Attrition in US Military Operations
US insistence that manoeuvre is central to breaking enemy cohesion risks misreading a future operating environment in which defence is dominant and attrition may still play an important role
The US Military’s Enduring ‘German Problem’
The US military has developed a persistent ‘German problem' due to the outsize influence of legendary strategist John Boyd. In a cautionary tale of how poor military history can lead to real-world mistakes, Stephen Robinson, in his book The Blind Strategist, demonstrates that, by basing his ideas on the tendentious work of historian B.H. Liddell Hart in collaboration with a coterie of former Wehrmacht officers, Boyd ingrained in the US military a…
Ukraine’s Strategy of Attrition
Attrition has been both Ukraine’s and Russia’s primary approach at the tactical level. Ukraine’s preferred way of war centres on the use of artillery fire to facilitate decisive attritional effects on the opposing force, which it then exploits with manoeuvre. This is not unexpected, as most major conventional wars feature attrition as well as manoeuvre and reconstitution. Western assistance has brought Ukraine to an impressive point, but may not …
War, Conflict and the Military
Benjamin M. Jensen, Christopher Whyte and Scott Cuomo. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2022. $49.95. 252 pp
War, Conflict and the Military
Making Attrition Work
As the Russia–Ukraine war enters its third year, Ukraine faces a daunting task: how to restore its military advantage. To maximise Ukraine’s chances of eventual victory, Western countries need to recognise that the driving engine of Ukraine’s effectiveness has been a destruction-centred approach. This approach has resulted in high levels of attrition and could prove an important part of the West’s and Ukraine’s theory of victory. The West enjoys …
War, Conflict and the Military
Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Military History and Strategy (5 works) · Attrition (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Aeronautics (2 works) · Armed conflict (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)