AirLand Battle-Future--A Hop, Skip, or Jump?
Abstract
This monograph examines the moral domain of AirLand Battle-Future. The focus is on the nature of combat at the tactical level. Military tactics have traditionally been, first and foremost, a contest of wills. Any battle, past, present, or future will reveal that moral qualities vary greatly and cannot be critically analyzed with any degree of certainty. The ultimate purpose of this paper is not merely to describe and analyze the human component, but to persuade the reader that success in battle depends upon a warfighting concept that properly brings into harmony doctrine, technology, and people. The monograph begins with an overview of AirLand Battle-Future, its future direction, and briefly, some of its initiatives. An historical account about a small, but sharp, action in the early weeks of the Korean War is offered to help visualize the nonlinear battlefield at the tactical level. Once this groundwork is laid we begin to examine the moral domain by comparing and contrasting AirLand Battle with AirLand Battle-Future.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 15, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA240422
Entities
People
- Jeff W. Karhohs
Organizations
- United States Army Command and General Staff College