02713oam 22006014a 450 991031193470332120210915043024.00-8157-2691-0(CKB)2660000000035330(EBL)2095192(SSID)ssj0001545765(PQKBManifestationID)16136005(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001545765(PQKBWorkID)12057444(PQKB)11091468(MiAaPQ)EBC2095192(OCoLC)919201663(MdBmJHUP)muse47324(ScCtBLL)009550eb-7c7e-466d-92fa-41cc595303e4(EXLCZ)99266000000003533020150806d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Future of Land WarfareMichael E. O'HanlonWashington, D.C. :Brookings Institution Press,2015.©2015.1 online resource (270 p.)Geopolitics in the 21st centuryDescription based upon print version of record.0-8157-2689-9 0-8157-2742-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 warGeopolitics in the 21st CenturyWarForecastingMilitary art and scienceForecastingMilitary planningUnited StatesElectronic books. WarForecasting.Military art and scienceForecasting.Military planning355/.033573O'Hanlon Michael E.552048MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910311934703321The Future of Land Warfare2054615UNINA