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The Combat Value of Surprise
2017
Overview
Surprise is one of J. F. C. Fuller’s eight principles of war and is listed among the nine principles of war in the various editions of the U.S. Army’sField Manual 100-5: Operations.¹ It is also extensively discussed by Clausewitz, who calls it the “most powerful medium in the art of war.”² It is almost universally recognized that achieving surprise against an enemy force can serve as a powerful force multiplier. The engagements in the Dupuy Institute’s division-level database were already coded for surprise. This was a four-tier coding based on a choice of “no surprise,” “minor surprise,” “considerable surprise,”
