In advanced industrial states, wars of manoeuvre diminish to tactical rather than strategic roles.

Evidence

Even those military experts whose minds are now fixed on the war of position, just as they were previously on that of manoeuvre, naturally do not maintain that the latter should be considered as expunged from military science. They merely maintain that, in wars among the more industrially and socially advanced States, the war of manoeuvre must be considered as reduced to more of a tactical than a strategic function; that it must be considered as occupying the same position as siege warfare used to occupy previously in relation to it. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 891

Categorization

• XREF: The manoeuvre-versus-position distinction maps directly onto Gramsci’s later analogy of the ‘war of position’ in modern civil society versus frontal assault, which the Islamophobia toolkit readings build on.