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The Mongols: Early Practitioners of Maneuver Warfare
Darrel C Benfield
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Abstract
The majority of the literature on maneuver warfare begins with an examination of German "stormtrooper" tactics of World War One or the German blitzkrieg campaigns of World War Two. Soviet deep maneuver campaigns and Israeli campaigns of the last half century are also frequently referenced. This monograph explores the utility of considering Mongol campaigns in the Thirteenth Century in the corpus of maneuver warfare examples. In particular, this monograph explores a number of aspects of maneuver warfare stressed by Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1 (MCDP-1, originally published as Fleet Marine Force Manual 1 {FMFM-1}) in the context of Genghis Khan's campaign against the Khwarazm Empire in the early Thirteenth Century.