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A New Design For Landpower In The 21st Century
Praeger Paperback
February 1997
On Sale: January 30, 1997
302 pages
ISBN: 0275957942
EAN: 9780275957940
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This work proposes the reorganization of America's ground
forces on the strategic, operational and tactical levels.
Central to the proposal is the simple thesis that the U.S.
Army must take control of its future by exploiting the
emerging revolution in military affairs. The analysis argues
that a new Army warfighting organization will not only be
more deployable and effective in Joint operations;
reorganized information age ground forces will be
significantly less expensive to operate, maintain, and
modernize than the Army's current Cold War division-based
organizations. And while ground forces must be equipped with
the newest Institute weapons, new technology will not
fulfill its promise of shaping the battlefield to American
advantage if new devices are not merely grafted on to old
organizations that are not specifically disigned to exploit
them. It is not enough to rely on the infusion of new,
expensive technology into the American defense establishment
to preserve America's strategic dominance in the next
century. The work makes it clear that planes, ships, and
missiles cannot do the job of defending America's global
serurity interests alone. The United States must opt for
reform and reorganization of the nation's ground forces and
avoid repeating Britain's historic mistake of always
fielding an effective army just in time to avoid defeat, but
too late to deter an aggressor.
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