Ground Combat
eBook - ePub

Ground Combat

Puncturing the Myths of Modern War

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Ground Combat

Puncturing the Myths of Modern War

About this book

A challenge to common assumptions about the future of land warfare

Ground Combat reveals the gritty details of land warfare at the tactical level and challenges today's overly subjective and often inaccurate approaches to characterizing war. Ben Connable's motivation for writing the book is to offer an evidence-based approach to examining the future of war.

Connable created and analyzed an original dataset of more than four hundred global ground combat cases, showing that there was an evolutionary rather than revolutionary shift in the characteristics of ground combat from World War II through the early 2020s. Despite advances in military technology, tanks, artillery, and infantry remain central to how war is waged on land. This book asks readers to stop and think about the implications of these findings for force planning and future predictions about military-technical revolutions.

This book sets an essential evidentiary baseline for military officers, policymakers, and scholars who think about the future of modern war.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. American Forecasts of War and Ground Combat
  12. 2. World War II Ground Combat Case Examples
  13. 3. World War II Ground Combat Characteristics
  14. 4. Interval Cases, 1945–2002
  15. 5. Interval-Period Ground Combat Characteristics
  16. 6. Modern Ground Combat from 2003 through 2012
  17. 7. Modern Ground Combat from 2013 through 2022
  18. 8. Observed Characteristics of Modern Ground Combat
  19. 9. Conclusions on Ground Combat and on War
  20. Appendix: Methodology and Source Insights
  21. Selected Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. About the Author