Limited Armed Stabilization And The Future Of US Landpower

U.S. Army soldiers prepare to load a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter for transportation to an area south of Balad Ruz, Iraq, March 22, 2009. The soldiers are assigned to the 25th Infantry Division's 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Walter J. Pels

From Defense Talk:

The author 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 but instead the primary land force mission for the foreseeable future.

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