There is nothing shaky or flaky about Maneuver Warfare IF you read the whole handbook including Colonel Wyly's section on the fundamentals of Tactics. A lot of people say stuff about it and then other people say the same stuff to more people, all the while nobody ever actually read the book. It is very much about how to fight a system in the most efficient and effective way and that will require that you develop your judgment of what to do based upon each situation. I will say they should have called it something besides Maneuver Warfare because that can create some confusion.