Is The U.S. Army Wrong On Future War?

U.S. military vehicles parading near Russia's border in Narva, Estonia on Feb. 24. (Estonian Defense Forces)

Nathan Jennings, Amos Fox and Adam Taliaferro, Modern War Institute: The US Army is Wrong on Future War

In August 1945, when America initiated the atomic age, the dominant character of land war between great powers transitioned from operational maneuver to positional defense. Now, almost a century later, the US Army is mistakenly structuring for offensive clashes of mass and scale reminiscent of 1944 while competitors like Russia and China have adapted to twenty-first-century reality. This new paradigm—which favors fait accompli acquisitions, projection from sovereign sanctuary, and indirect proxy wars—combines incremental military actions with weaponized political, informational, and economic agendas under the protection of nuclear-fires complexes to advance territorial influence. The Army’s failure to conceptualize these features of the future battlefield is a dangerous mistake.

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WNU Editor: The comment thread on this article is an interesting read. As to the US Army being wrong on future war? There are a lot of smart people in the U.S. Army/Pentagon. They have a very good idea on what "future war" will look like.