ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the nature of manoeuvre-oriented approach and traces its evolution in the British Army since the end of the Second World War. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) approach to warfare on the Central Front from both an industrial approach to warfare and from the vulnerability of democracies to battle casualties in the media age. There are similarities between manoeuvre warfare and Liddell Harts indirect approach his emphasis, on avoidance of the enemys strength, dislocation of the enemy, deception, and that the true aim in war is the mind of the hostile ruler not the body of his troops. British commanders in the Second World War showed themselves adept at a manoeuvrist style of warfare and had the room for manoeuvre in which to demonstrate their skill. The British Army tended to fight its battles by building up matriel superiority and fighting in an attritionalist style.
