How Operational Art Devoured Strategy

[William F. Owen]

On Wilf advice I am copying this comment I did on the threat on Clausewitz delusion:

Definition of a decisive battle is quite loose with time. I’ll take the example of La Marne in 1914. It was merely a strategic decisive battle but was a tactical decisive battle as it was more a smart use of modern logistic technology and more or less did fix the front. But this was not the attempt or aim. (The objective was to protect Paris so the old dogma I have your capital = I won, would not happen).
But still it was a decisive battle.

My take is that it was a battle that had strategic effect - thus decisive. It cost the Germans the War in terms of wining in 1914. The Marne does show a shortening of the gap between tactical success and strategic consequence. The operational issues, are those that enabled that tactical success. Merely example.