Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
The one core advance of Napoleon for the art of war was to march the corps dispersed and then let them converge to decisive battles - all while under his control (with some delay, of course).
...but people had done that before. Ghenghis Khan in Transoxianna in 1219/20 is just one of several examples I can think off. Ancient "Armies" often had to march dispersed because they simply ate out the land they were covering.

I was re-reading Moltke last night, and noted he only ever talks of "Strategy" and "Tactics." - as does Hamley. Both men understood the need to conduct "Operations," but merely saw this as the necessary preliminaries to battle.