The New Balance: Limited Armed Stabilization and the Future of U.S. Landpower

Abstract

Consistent with his past writing on the rapid onset of an unconventional operating environment, Mr. Nathan Freier takes a critical look at the mission assignment and orientation of U.S. landpower. He calls for an unconventional revolution in U.S. land forces that optimizes them for intervention in complex and violent crises of governance and security in states crippled by internal disorder. In the end, he argues that the armed stabilization of states and regions in crises will be not just equivalent in importance to traditional warfighting in future land force planning, as suggested by DoD 3000.05 (Stability Operations), but instead the primary land force mission for the foreseeable future.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA496368

Entities

People

  • Nathan Freier

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Civil War
  • Combat Areas
  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Conventional Warfare
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Human Behavior
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design