Addressing the Fog of COG: Perspectives on the Center of Gravity in US Military Doctrine - Softcover

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Nearly twenty years ago, as a new student in the Army’s Command and General Staff Officer’s College, Infantry Branch officers introduced to me the relatively newly codified doctrinal term “center of gravity.” Throughout the “best year of our lives” as students, we wrestled with how to apply or integrate center of gravity with the Military Decision Making Process. We read Clausewitz’ On War. I marked every reference he made to center of gravity. We consumed Army Field Manual 100-5 AirLand Battle. I dog-eared the few center of gravity references it had. Some of us stayed at mother Leavenworth for a second year and studied even more Clausewitz, even more Field Manual 100-5, and studied the application of center of gravity in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

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