abstract:The Operational Art of War (TOAW) is a series of computer wargames noted for their scope, detail, and flexibility in recreating, at an operational level, the major land battles of the 20th century. A Norm Koger design, Talonsoft published the first of the series in 1998.
Thepracticeofoperationalart is thentraced, fromits inception by U. S.Grantduring theAmericanCivil War, to Sovietoperationaltheorydeveloped in the 1920's.