Rozwój poglądów na operacje wojsk lądowych w europejskiej myśli wojskowej okresu nowożytnego

The article presents the problem of operations in modern European military thought. There was presented the theoretical output of Humphrey Lloyd, Heinrich Dietricha Bulow, Henri Jomini, Helmuth von Moltke, Sigismund von Schlichting, Colmar von der Goltza, John Frederick Charles Fuller, Basil Henri Liddell-Hart, Ludwik von Eimannsberger, Siergiey Kamieniev, Vladimir Triandafillov, Mikchail Tuchaczevski, and also Stefan Mossor. The first views suggesting the necessity to introduce research on operations appeared before mass armies emerged on the war arena. Although they did not define the notion but suggested the necessity to introduce operational forms of fighting. Therefore these operational forms of fighting in the time of mass armies had to take shape of fighting, battles, assaults and maneuvers (groups) joined by common task, the final effect of which was to achieve a strategic goal of the war. A general battle had to fall into a number of simultaneous or successive armed encounters. A serious impulse to look for new solutions in the art of war, operations including, was the First World War. Also the time between the wars brought a special development of research in land forces operations. This phenomenon was distinguished in military sciences. A detailed analysis was undertaken in methods of conducting operations.