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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476846003321

Autore

O'Hanlon Michael E.

Titolo

Future of Land Warfare / / Michael E. O'Hanlon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-8157-2690-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages)

Collana

Geopolitics in the 21st century (Brookings Institution)

Disciplina

355.4

Soggetti

Military planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: historical, strategic, and technological context -- Conflicts real, latent, and imaginable -- Scenarios with Russia or China -- Scenarios in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas -- Toward an army of the future for the United States -- The case for a million-soldier U.S. Army.

Sommario/riassunto

What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the army and ground forces: this, after the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, seems like an appealing idea. No one really wants American boots on the ground in bloody conflicts abroad. But it is not so easy to simply declare an end to messy land wars. A survey of the world's trouble spots suggests that land war.