CIAO DATE: 07/2008
June 2008
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
In their new book, Ground Truth: The Future of U.S. Land Power, AEI's Thomas Donnelly and Frederick W. Kagan argue that if the United States is to maintain its status as the sole superpower, American land power must be restructured to confront unprecedented challenges. Kagan expands on the subject in this article by discussing a military system that was geared to fight a single enemy--the Soviet Union--with relatively even balances between services and theaters of operations. The 1986 military reorganization made some improvements, he says, but the military is still poorly structured for the kind of wars we are likely to face.
Resource link: Two Decades Late [PDF] - 72K