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Military

Future Warfare Anthology, Revised Edition


Authored by Major General Robert H. Scales.

June 2001

305 Pages

Brief Synopsis

This Revised Anthology is about the future of military operations in the opening decades of the 21st century. Its purpose is not to predict the future, but to speculate on the conduct of military operations as an instrument of national policy in a world absent massive thermonuclear and conventional superpower confrontation characteristic of the Cold War. Also absent are indirect constraints imposed by that confrontation on virtually all political-military relationships, not solely those between superpower principals. Most of these essays are attempts to define military operational concepts that might be employed to execute such an engagement strategy.

CONTENTS

Foreword
General Donn A. Starry
U.S. Army, Retired.

Prologue
Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr.

Revised Acknowledgements

Introduction to the First Edition
Dr. Williamson Murray

Preface to the First Edition
Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr.

1. Speed and Power: Primal Forces in the New American Style of War

2. Cycles of War

3. Preparing For War in the 21st Century
with Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper, USMC, Retired

4. Adaptive Enemies: Dealing with the Strategic Threat after 2010

5. A Sword with Two Edges: Maneuver in 21st Century Warfare

6. From Korea to Kosovo: How America’s Army Has Learned to Fight Limited Wars in the Precision Age:

7. Clashes of Visions: Sizing and Shaping Our Forces in a Fiscally Constrained Environment

8. America’s Army: Preparing For Tomorrow’s Security Challenges

9. The Dawn of a New Age of Warfare: And the Clarion Call for Enhanced Maneuver Capabilities

10. The Annual Report for The Army After Next Project to the Chief of Staff of the Army

11. The Army After Next: Intertwining Military Art, Science, and Technology Out to the Year 2025
with Dr. John A. Parmentola

12. The Indirect Approach: How U.S. Military Forces Can Avoid the Pitfalls of Future Urban Warfare

13. Russia’s Clash in Chechnya: Implications For Future War

14. Trust, Not Technology, Sustains Coalitions

15. Trust, More Than Technology, Ensures Interoperability

16. In War, The U.S. Can’t Go It Alone

17. Europe as a Strategic Staging Base for 21st Century Stabilization Operations

18. Adaptive Enemies: Achieving Victory by Avoiding Defeat

Index of Selected Terms

About the Author.


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