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200 10$aFuture of Land Warfare /$fMichael E. O'Hanlon
210  1$aWashington, D.C. :$cBrookings Institution Press,$d2015.
215   $a1 online resource (254 pages)
225 1 $aGeopolitics in the 21st century (Brookings Institution)
327   $aIntroduction: 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.
330   $aWhat happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the army and ground forces: this, after the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, seems like an appealing idea. No one really wants American boots on the ground in bloody conflicts abroad. But it is not so easy to simply declare an end to messy land wars. A survey of the world's trouble spots suggests that land war.
410  0$aGeopolitics in the 21st century.
606   $aMilitary planning
615  0$aMilitary planning.
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