"The thoughtful consideration of past military campaigns is a sound and sensible basis for the education of military leaders and commanders. The study of military campaigns, be they successful or otherwise, has formed a core component of staff college curricula in modern times since before the past century, and it continues to the present. How wars have been fought, how individual battles have been waged and how commanders have orchestrated their forces to achieve military purposes is of fundamental interest to us as professional military members. Yet for many of us the mechanics of analysing a complex campaign is a task beset with challenges and uncertainties. What elements of the campaign should be considered? How important is it to establish the political and social context in which the campaign took place? Should the economic conditions of the protagonists feature in the study? Is there a place in the analysis for the less tangible considerations of operational art, friction and luck? Such questions have almost certainly vexed students in countless staff course seminars tasked with a campaign analysis or any number of military researchers looking to better understand or represent a particular battle, campaign or operation. Consequently, how to go about actually undertaking a campaign analysis is doubtlessly a topic of interest to many, and the focus of this latest Air Power Development Centre working paper."--Page iii.