Introduction
1. Sir William Slim, Defeat into Victory (London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1956), 550-551.
2. Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq, Battle Studies (New York: MacMillan, 1921), 47.
3. D. K. Palit, The Essentials of Military Knowledge (Aldershot, England: Gale and Polden, 1947), xviii.
4. Freiherr Colmar von der Goltz, Conduct of War (Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson, 1896; reprint, Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 1983), vol. 51, Art of War Colloquium, 25.
5. Karl von Clausewitz, On War (Princeton University Press, 1984), 86.
6. B. L. Montgomery of Alamein, A History of Warfare (Cleveland, OH: World Publishing, 1968), 14.
7. J. B. Wheeler, Art and Science of War (New York: Van Nostrand, 1889), 9.
8. FMFM 1, Warfighting, 23. 

Achieving a Decision
1. Infantry in Battle, 2d ed. (Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, 1939), 1.
2. Joint Pub 1-02: "forward edge of the battle area-(DOD, NATO) The foremost limits of a series of areas in which ground combat units are deployed, excluding the areas in which the covering or screening forces are operating, designated to coordinate fire support, the positioning of forces, or the maneuver units."
3. For an authoritative account of the battle of Antietam and its consequences, see: James V. Murfin, The Gleam of Bayonets (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965).
4. Oxford English Dictionary (U.K.: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1933), vol. II.
5. David G. Chandler, The Campaigns of Napoleon (New York: MacMillan, 1966), 15-28.
6. Robert A. Doughty, The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940(Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1990), 266-270.
7. Attributed.

Gaining Leverage
1. Col. John C. Studt, USMC (Ret), "Foreword" in Maneuver Warfare Handbook, William S. Lind (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1985), xi.
2. Joint Pub 1-02: "Maneuver-(DOD, NATO) . . . 4. Employment of forces on the battlefield through movement in combination with fire, or fire potential, to achieve a position of advantage in respect to the enemy in order to accomplish the mission."
3. FMFM 1, Warfighting, 37.
4. Capt. B.H. Liddell-Hart, "The 'Man-in-the- Dark' Theory of Infantry Tactics and the `Expanding Torrent' System of Attack," Journal of the R.U.S.L, (February 1921), 13.
5. Erwin Rommel, Attacks (Vienna, VA: Athena Press, 1979), 235-250.

Trapping The Enemy
1. B. H. Liddell Hart, Thoughts on War (London: Faber & Faber, 1944), i.
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (New York: Charles Scribner, 1934), 56-57; quoted in Col. David Jablonsky, USA, Churchill: The Making of a Grand Strategist (Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 1990), 3.
3. For a comprehensive discussion of German tactical innovation during WWI, see: B. I. Gudmundsson, Stormtroop Tactics (New York: Praeger, 1989).
4. The Marines In Vietnam 1954-1973; An Anthology and Annotated Bibliography (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1985), 173-181.
5. Andre Laffargue, Fantassin de Gascogne. De Mon Jardin a la Marne et au Danube [Infantryman of Gascony. From my garden to the Marne and the Danube] (Paris: Elammarion, 1962), 59-78. Mr. Laffargue presents one of the few personal accounts of small-unit tactics of WWI.
6. FMFM 1, Warfighting, 75.
7. FMFM 1, Warfighting, 6.
8. For a better understanding of the German perspective on the Battle of France and the thinking that entered into the final decisions, see: Erich von Manstein, Lost Victories (Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982), ch. 5. For a battalion-level account of the battle, see: Hans von Luck, Panzer Commander (New York: Praeger, 1989), ch 7.
9. For further reading on the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, see: Edgar O'Ballance, No Victor, No Vanquished (San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1978).

Moving Faster
1. Infantry in Battle, 2d ed. (Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, 1939), 94.
2. Attributed.
3. Attributed.
4. Gen. Hermann Balck, interview by Wm. S. Lind, 6 June 1980, Washington, D.C.
5. Col. Ray Smith, USMC, telephone interview by Capt. S.R. Shoemaker, USMC, 12 March 1991, Washington, D.C.
6. Gen. Hermann Balck, interview by Wm. S. Lind, 6 June 1980, Washington, D.C. 
7. Wm. S. Lind, Maneuver Warfare Handbook (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985), 5-6.
8. George S. Patton, Jr., War As I Knew It (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947), 341.
9. Charles Edward White, The Enlightened Soldier (New York: Praeger, 1989), 176.
10. Capt. A. T. Mahan, USN, The Life of Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1899), 730.
11. 21.Pz.D., Ia, Anglage zum KTB Nr. 5, Gefechtsbericht III/Schuetz. Rgt. 104 (mot), 2.6.42, U.S. Archives, German Records, Divisions, T-31.

Cooperation
1. NAVMC 7386, Tactical Principles (Quantico, VA: Marine Corps Schools, 1955), 7.
2. Panzermeyer (Kurt Meyer), Grenadiere (Munich: Schild Verlag, 1956), 196-201. Mr. Paul Gartenmann of Arlington, Virginia, translated the passages.

Making It Happen
1. T. E. Lawrence, "The Science of Guerrilla Warfare," intro to "Guerrilla Warfare," Encyclopedia Britannica, 13th ed. (New York: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1926).
2. As attibuted to Erwin Rommel by Robert Debs Heinl, Jr., Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations, (Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1985), 60.
3. George S. Patton, Jr., War As I Knew It (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947), 354.
4. Ferdinand Foch, The Principles of War, trans. Hillaire Belloc (London: Chapman & Hall, 1920(?)), 5-6.