
By Michael E. O'Hanlon
ISBN-10: 0815726899
ISBN-13: 9780815726890
ISBN-10: 0815727429
ISBN-13: 9780815727422
What occurs if we wager too seriously on unmanned platforms, cyber war, and distinct operations in our defense?
In contemporary U.S. security coverage debates, immense land wars are out. Drones, cyber guns, exact forces, and area guns are in. therefore, Pentagon funds cuts have honed in at the military and floor forces: this, after the lengthy wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, appears like an beautiful proposal. nobody fairly desires American boots at the flooring in bloody conflicts out of the country. however it isn't really easy to easily claim an finish to messy land wars. A survey of the world's hassle spots means that land struggle has extra of a destiny than many now appear to believe.
In The way forward for Land Warfare, Michael O'Hanlon deals an research of the way forward for the world's flooring forces: the place are large-scale conflicts or different catastrophes so much believable? Which of those can be very important adequate to require the choice of a U.S. army reaction? And which of those may perhaps in flip call for major numbers of yank floor forces of their answer? O'Hanlon isn't really predicting or advocating giant American roles in such operationsonly cautioning opposed to overconfidence that we will and may keep away from them.
O'Hanlon considers a couple of illustrative eventualities within which huge traditional forces can be priceless: discouraging Russia from even considering assaults opposed to the Baltic states; discouraging China from contemplating an unfriendly destiny function at the Korean peninsula; dealing with an uneven chance within the South China Sea with the development and safety of a few bases within the Philippines and in different places; dealing with the aftermath of an immense and intricate humanitarian catastrophe superimposed on a safety crisisperhaps in South Asia; dealing with a critical Ebola outbreak now not within the small states of West Africa yet in Nigeria, even as that state falls additional into violence; addressing a different meltdown in protection stipulations in valuable America.