Operational Art in Modern Complex Conflicts

January-February 2009  Military review Brigadier General Huba Wass de Czege, U.S. Army, Retired, was one of the principal developers of the Army’s AirLand Battle concept and the founder and first director of the School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy and an M.A. from Harvard University. He also attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the Army War College, and the Capstone Course at the National Defense University. He commanded an Airborne Infantry Company and a Vietnamese Ranger Battalion advisory team in combat. His most recent publications, on subjects from tactics to strategy and military ”transformation,” have appeared in Armed Forces Journal, Army Magazine, Military Review, Artillery Journal, Strategic Studies Institute Papers, and in AUSA Land Power Papers.