o Combined Approach / operational success (in relations to strategic and tactical level) definitions.
o Operational Success is a combination of tactical victories in order to achieve a means of defeating Germany in a large scale that leads to strategic success.
o Thesis: - Combined arms was a great enabler to operational success, but it was not the key factor that led the allies to victory. Other elements play a major role, such as GERMAN OPERATIONAL FAILURE .German critical vulnerabilities, morale, resource( manpower), lack of offensive spirit( inability to counter-attack). (With description of how the structure will be set to support the arguments) 400 words for the introduction.
Main Body
• How the Germens and the Allies develop the combined arms and what the problem was?
• Ludendorff leadership (infantry focused) /it does not plan for the follow up
o The level of integration in different arms within the Allied. (refer to doctrine)
• Compare between Foch and Ludendorff (in a way which support the argument)
• Acknowledged what are the problems and challenged which the Allies faced and overcome in implementing the Combined arms approaches (counter argument).
• Highlight the Germans failure in the combined arms implementation
• Allies’ ability to learned (doctrine) tempo to exploit the German OODA loop (Observation – Orientation- decision- Action)- innovation, commonality, unity of effort, interoperability.
• Compare and contrast the German and the allies. (Different perspectives ending up with critical thinking supporting the arguments)
• Battle of Hamel & (select another battel where combined approach was not applied)
• The first truly modern battle / How the Allies where successful/ How John Monash apply the combined Approach?