AirLand Battle Future: Combat Engineer Force Structure

Abstract

Military writers believe that future warfare is about to undergo fundamental change. Due to extremely sophisticated intelligent weapons and the lack of economic resources, countries are moving away from mass conscripted draftee armies toward smaller, highly trained professional armies. In addition to greater battlefield lethality introduced by the new brilliant weapon systems, social forces in the Western world demand that military leaders avoid attrition warfare and conserve the lives of soldiers. The solution to these societal forces is the prosecution of warfare on a nonlinear battlefield. The purpose of this monograph is to examine the US Army's revised operational concept that extensively modifies AirLand Battle. Then the monograph examines and analyzes the supporting engineer doctrine and proposed engineer force structure developed by the Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 05, 1991
Accession Number
ADA233628

Entities

People

  • Jerry T. Mohr

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Armored Vehicles
  • Artillery
  • Combat Areas
  • Combat Forces
  • Command And Control
  • Detection
  • Employment
  • Engineering
  • Indirect Fire
  • Military Organizations
  • New York
  • River Crossings
  • Schools
  • Task Forces
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warfare

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  • Economics
  • Facility/Structural Engineering.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.