AirLand Battle Future: Combat Engineer Force Structure

摘要

Military writers believe that future warfare is about to undergo fundamentalchange. Due to extremely sophisticated intelligent weapons and the lack of economic resources, countries are moving away from mass conscripted draftee armies toward smaller, highly trained professional armies. In addition to greater battlefield lethality introduced by the new brilliant weapon systems, social forces in the Western world demand that military leaders avoid attrition warfare and conserve the lives of soldiers. The solution to these societal forces is the prosecution of warfare on a nonlinear battlefield. The purpose of this monograph is to examine the US Army's revised operational concept that extensively modifies AirLand Battle. Then the monograph examines and analyzes the supporting engineer doctrine and proposed engineer force structure developed by the Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.