BCMH Summer Conference Whither Operational Art
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Oxford University Training Corps, Falklands House, Oxpens Road, Oxford, OX1 1RX
Saturday, 20 June 2026, 9am to 7pm
The conference papers will look at Operational Art from the Middle Ages to the present day, covering operations across the world.
Introductory Plenary – Professor William Philpott – Filling ‘The Grey Area between Strategy and Tactics.’ What is the Operational Level of War?
Panel 1 – Between Strategy & Tactics; Military History, Doctrine and Dogma since 1982
Panel 2 – Operational Art on the Western Front 1914-1918
Panel 3 – From AA Svechin to the War in Ukraine
Panel 4 – Operational Art on the Second World War Eastern Front and in the 1967-1973 Middle East Wars
Panel 5 – British Operational Art in the Second World War
Panel 6 – Operational Art in different domains; COIN, sea power, and the grey zone
Panel 7 – Operational Art before Napoleon
Host: British Commission for Military History
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https://www.bcmh.org.uk/bcmh-summer-conference-whither-operational-art/