Advanced Land Warfare: Tactics and Operations

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Foreword
Contents
Abbreviations
Contributors
1 Approaching Land Warfare in the Twenty-first Century
	Approaching Land Warfare
	Development of Land Warfare
	Current and Future Challenges
	Character of War and Transformation of the Battlefield
	Structure of the Volume
	Chapter-by-chapter Synopsis
I LAND WARFARE
	2 The Future of Manoeuvre Warfare
		Introduction
		Manoeuvre Warfare
		The Future Importance of Manoeuvre Warfare
		Alternative Perspectives
		Conclusion
	3 Commanding Contemporary and Future Land Operations: What Role for Mission Command?
		Introduction
		Mission Command: Culture or Method?
		Commanding Land Operations in the Contemporary and Future Operational Environment
		The Informational Challenge
		Command, Communication, and Technology
		Conclusion
	4 Combat Logistics in the Twenty-first Century: Enabling the Mobility, Endurance, and Sustainment of NATO Land Forces in a Future Major Conflict
		Introduction
		The Character and Scope of Military Logistics
		The Applications of Combat Logistics
		AM, Robotics, and AI in Future Force Structures
		Conclusion
	5 The Command of Land Forces
		Introduction
		Purpose
		Products
		Processes
		Structures
		Systems
		People
		Summary and Conclusions
	6 Tactical Tenets: Checklists or Toolboxes
		Introduction
		What Is `Tactics\'?
		The History of Tactical Theory
		Purpose of Theory
		From Principles to Tenets
		Relationship with Strategy
		Tactical Theory in Practice
		Conclusion
	7 Urban Warfare: Challenges of Military Operations on Tomorrow\'s Battlefield
		Introduction
		Approaching Urban Warfare
		Future Challenges for Urban Warfare
		Conclusion: Eleven Takeaways about Urban Warfare
	8 Emerging Technologies: From Concept to Capability
		Introduction
		Autonomous Systems
		Layered Precision Fires
		High Fidelity Layered Sensors
		Artificial Intelligence
		Combining Emerging Capabilities
	9 Interoperability Challenges in an Era of Systemic Competition
		Introduction
		Understanding Interoperability
		Interoperability in an Era of Systemic Competition
		The UK\'s Approach to Interoperability
		Conclusion
	10 The Moral Component of Fighting: Bringing Society Back In
		Introduction
		Why Soldiers Fight
		How Society Slips from View
		Considering the Role of Society
		Conclusion
	11 Military Health Services Supporting the Land Component in the Twenty-first Century
		Introduction
		What is a Military Health System?
		The Twenty-first-century Context
		COVID-19—A Game Changer?
		The Future of Health Services Support to the Land Component in Military Operations
		Conclusions
II CASE STUDIES
	12 The Operational Cultures of American Ground Forces
	13 People\'s Liberation Army Operations and Tactics in the Land Domain: Informationized to Intelligentized Warfare
		Introduction
		Part I: Building the Modern People\'s Liberation Army
		Part II: From Informationized to Intelligentized Warfare
		Bringing it all Together: The Stratagem
		Ongoing Challenges and Lessons
		Conclusions
	14 A Strategy of Limited Actions: Russia\'s Ground-Based Forces in Syria
		Introduction
		Previous Research on Russia\'s Ground-based Forces in Syria
		The Russian Ground-based Contingent
		The Strategic Functions of Russia\'s Ground-based Contingent
		Conclusion
	15 The Role of Israel\'s Ground Forces in Israel\'s Wars
		Introduction
		Background
		Perception of the Threat
		Israel\'s National Security Strategy
		Evolution of the Ground Forces
		Conclusion
	16 Tactics and Trade-Offs: The Evolution of Manoeuvre in the British Army
		Introduction
		Importing Manoeuvre into British Military Thought
		Between Warfighting Capability and Counter-insurgency
		Reinventing Manoeuvre after Afghanistan: Army 2020 and Organizational Change
		From Army 2020 to Integrated Manoeuvre
		Conclusion
	17 Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place: The French Army, Expeditionary Warfare, and the Return of Strategic Competition
		Introduction
		French Military Interventions: An Important Part of the Army Culture
		A Wide-ranging Operational Experience
		The Force Structure and Main Capabilities
		The French Army Doctrine
		From Network-centric Warfare to High Intensity
		Providing Soldiers for Future Wars
		Conclusion
	18 Trends in the Land Warfare Capability of Poland and the Visegrád States, 1991–2021
		Introduction
		Background: From Warsaw Pact to NATO
		How Land Force Capabilities Changed
		Looking to the Future
		Conclusion
III CONCLUSIONS
	19 Towards a Versatile Edge: Developing Land Forces for Future Conflict
		Introduction
		Dynamics of Twenty-first-century Land Warfare
		The Continuum of Land Operations
		Locating Land Operations
		Towards a Versatile Edge: Securing Land Warfare Capability
		Ways Forward: Practical Implications and Agenda for Future Research
Index