This monograph explores the similarity between the nuclear battlefield of the Pentomic Era and the nonlinear battlefield described in TRADOC Pamphlet 525-5 AirLand Operations: A Concept for the Evolution of AirLand Battle for the Strategic Army of...
This monograph offers a definition of "military art," discusses military art's relationship to the commander's management of battlefield uncertainty, and uncertainty's relationship to nonlinearity. Using the terms of art, uncertainty, and...
The War in Burma is all too frequently forgotten as a source of relevant military experience. Admittedly it did not have the strategic importance of other theatres such as the Pacific or North West Europe, but it did witness some of the hardest and...
This monograph examines the moral domain of AirLand Battle-Future. The focus is on the nature of combat at the tactical level. Military tactics have traditionally been, first and foremost, a contest of wills. Any battle, past, present, or future...
This monograph seeks to answer the question of how we can reduce the risk to the heavy brigade's sustainment system during nonlinear close operations when the enemy has advanced technology. The analysis focuses on the effects of nonlinear close...
Military writers believe that future warfare is about to undergo fundamental change. Due to extremely sophisticated intelligent weapons and the lack of economic resources, countries are moving away from mass conscripted draftee armies toward...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the viability of combined arms brigade employment in AirLand Operations. As criteria, the study imposes the Operational Operating Systems (OOS) contained in the April 15, 1990 TRADOC Pam 11-9, Army Programs...
Since the seventeenth century, Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion have had tremendous impact on the Western world’s mind-sets for understanding nature as predictable and orderly. Consequently, Western strategic culture has been based on a linear...
As modern battlefields have become increasingly dispersed and nonlinear, intermingling of opposing forces in encounter battles jeopardizes the sustainment of maneuver forces along fixed lines of communication. During the mid-nineteenth century,...
This monograph examines the question can modern metaphors, based on late twentieth century nonlinear scientific thought, better explain concepts described by Clausewitz, using early nineteenth century linear scientific thought. Clausewitz...
The command and control of today's intratheater airlift system, as seen in doctrine and in application, is complicated and conflicted. As the Army continues its transformation to the modular force, requirements for responsive and flexible...
This monograph reviews existing and emergent Joint and Army doctrine; assesses the current and emergent threats to sustainment operations based on the Contemporary Operating Environment (COE) and transformation to the Interim and Objective Force;...
This monograph examines the dimensions of time and space for military operations and the process for synchronization. The specific military operations addressed are: linear warfighting as described in FM 100-5, “Operations,” May 1986;...
This monograph analyzes that characteristic of the modern battlefield known as nonlinear operations, as defined in FM 100-5, Operations. The purpose is to determine if there is a firm linkage between U.S. Army doctrine and the training of U.S....
The United States Army is transforming from its Legacy Force, to the Objective Force. Until the Army completes this transformation, the Interim Brigade Combat Teams (IBCT) are likely to conduct the bulk of the workload during stability operations...
Airspace command and control in the combat zone is becoming more complex due to the proliferation of unmanned aircraft, and the introduction of host nation and civilian aircraft. The ability to deconflict and integrate multiple airspace users...
This monograph looks at how the AirLand Battle-Future concept changes heavy division synchronization in the attack. To find these effects, three subordinate questions provided supporting information. First, how well do divisions synchronize using...
The strategic and operational environment in which the United States military will operate in for the foreseeable future is characterized by its complexity. Historically the United States military has taken a linear approach to understanding the...
The purpose of this study is to critically examine the 30-bed MASH developed by the United States Army Medical Department and to examine its ability during nonlinear operations to provide forward surgical support to AirLand Operations. The...
This monograph examines current U.S. doctrine on the subject of battle handover to determine its applicability to the conditions of maneuver war. Army theorists are considering a new operational concept that assumes the likelihood of maneuver war...