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44 . Gen Robert H . Scales, USA, Certain Victory : The U.S. Army in the Gulf
War (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas : US Army Command and General Staff
College Press, 1994), 378 .
45 . Ibid ., 376 .
46 . Warden, 328 .
47 . "Force XXI Operations," 3-21 .
48 . Warden, 329-30 .
49 . Ibid .
50 . Mann, 38 .
51 . John I . Alger, The Quest for Victory : The History of the Principles of
War (Westport, Conn . : Greenwood Press, 1982) . Alger drew on the military
writings of thinkers such as Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Jomini, Mahan,
Rocquancourt, Steele, MacDougall, Liddell Hart, Mao Tse-tung,
Montgomery, as well as the British army, French army, German army, and
US Army and Air Force in compiling his list of principles of war. These
guidelines included, for example, diverse maxims on the need for
cooperation, shock, favorable ground cover, vitality, fire superiority,
flexibility, an indirect approach, simultaneity, reconnaissance, local
superiority, air superiority, a will to win, readiness, pursuit, God's blessing,
and the moral high ground .
52 . For a summary discussion see AFM 1-1, vol . 2, Essay B : "Principles
of War ." 14 . The original sources are Col Robert H . Reed et al ., "On
Deterrence : A Broadened Perspective," Air University Review, May--June
1975, 2-17, and John M . Collins, "Principles of Deterrence," Air University
Review, November-December 1979, 17-26 .