The Future of Land Warfare /

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 arm...

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Main Author: O'Hanlon, Michael E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.