Now as a ‘level of war’ coequal with strategy and tactics, operations can and indeed must be more than just that, because it would have to consider uses of force beyond simply maneuvering against enemy armies in the field for the purpose of battles, but that frame will serve us pretty well here because it is the frame Hearts of Iron adopts across the entire series. Which is not a critique: this is a game about World War II, which was very substantially a war concerned with large conventional armies maneuvering in the field.

I feel like I have to note that I recently unfollowed and blocked Bret Devereaux on socials for being an anticommunist pedant. That said, that reactionary knows how to write about war