Quote Originally Posted by Chris jM View Post
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My preference is for working to Stephen Biddle's 'Modern System' he outlined in Military Power. While his work was not prescriptive for success ala a handbook, he outlined the reasons behind mission comd, dispersion, depth, combined arms, fire and manoeuvre etc in a way that I found faultless. The unfortunate thing is that he does not offer quick 'cheats' to success as Lind does, possibly because there is no such thing as quick fixes to warfighting success.
Important book. Some of it is annoyingly and not usefully academic, but the basics are extremely sound and well reasoned. I strongly recommend it.

As concerns Lind's book, I think I have covered it extensively on other threads.