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Old 03-13-2013, 10:41 PM
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Fantastic article, seapower vs landpower

A Rack City on a Hill: Unsolicited Advice to Landpower and Seapower | Center for a New American Security

Great analysis of US power projection.

"Granted, it's hard for Americans to care too much about defense in general with the current state of external stability. But landpower advocates are likely to get a better hearing if they stop harkening back to an imagined past in which the American, not the Soviet, man on the scene with the gun destroyed the Third Reich. Not only would doing so give GI Ivan his due, but it would help landpower theory productively advance. I continue to believe that Antulio Echevarria's minimalist idea of "extending the reach of policy" is the best card landpower can play. American policy will require robust land forces, but landpower theory needs to move beyond its industrial era obsession with large armies, total war, and unlimited political objectives."
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