TY - BOOK AU - O'Hanlon,Michael E. ED - Project Muse. TI - The Future of Land Warfare / T2 - Geopolitics in the 21st century SN - 9780815726913 PY - 2015/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Brookings Institution Press KW - United States KW - Army KW - fast KW - États-Unis KW - Planification KW - Planning KW - Planering KW - sao KW - Prognoser KW - Försvarspolitik KW - Militärväsen KW - War KW - Forecasting KW - Military planning KW - Military art and science KW - Armed Forces KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Security (National & International) KW - bisacsh KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING KW - Military Science KW - HISTORY KW - Military KW - Other KW - Land forces & warfare KW - bicssc KW - Guerre KW - Prevision KW - Art et science militaires KW - Planification militaire KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Introduction: historical, strategic, and technological context -- Conflicts real, latent, and imaginable -- Scenarios with Russia or China -- Scenarios in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas -- Toward an army of the future for the United States -- The case for a million-soldier U.S. Army; Open Access N2 - What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the army and ground forces: this, after the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, seems like an appealing idea. No one really wants American boots on the ground in bloody conflicts abroad. But it is not so easy to simply declare an end to messy land wars. A survey of the world's trouble spots suggests that land war UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42059/ ER -