Landpower: A New Year – A New Website
We hope you have come to enjoy the thought provoking insights on Landpower, hosted by the United States Army War College.
With the start of 2104 we needed to replace our server for Landpower. This hardware upgrade necessitated a new web so here it is.
http://public.carlisle.army.mil/sites/Landpower please save this link to your bookmarks for future reference.
Interesting Landpower Articles
With the recent passage and signing of the Federal Budget, military retirement appears to be in the crosshairs of budgets cuts; specifically the cost of living adjustments of military retirees. But these Congressional plans are not the only ideas being debated. Do you know about the 10-15-55 plan put forth by the Army Deputy G-1? We have two ways to explain the 10-15-55 plan:
First: we have a PowerPoint video presentation – here (The Third Rail of Military Retirement)
Second: we have a detailed research report – here (A Framework for Restructuring the Military Retirement System)
For your general reading we have two new articles concerning Strategic Landpower:
Strategic Landpower in the Indo-Asia-Pacific
Strategic Landpower in the Arabian Gulf
If you desire to send me feedback, it is always welcome: Scott.Forster@us.army.mil
I hope your both enjoy and are informed by Landpower. I look forward to continuing the discourse.
Scott
Comments
The role of Land Power to be viewed through this lense?
The goal is to transform the lesser and remaining states and societies along modern western lines; this, so that they, much like their significantly-transformed great nation counterparts (Germany, Japan, Russia and China) might come to better benefit from and better provide for the global economy.
Thus, much as in the 20th Century with the great nations noted above, likewise is the case in the 21st Century with the lesser and remaining states and societies, that the United States seeks to facilitate (1) the unhinging of outlying states and societies from their old way of life and old way of governance and (2) the attachment these countries and populations to ways of life and ways of governance which are more similar to our own.
Herein, we must be prepared to:
a. Help pro-westernizing governments deal with members of their population who might resist or have difficulty adjusting to this necessary transition (building partner capacity) and
b. Help pro-westernizing populations deal with their governments -- should these governments stand in the way of transformational progress (along modern western lines).
In this regard, budget constraints to determine (a) just how much help can be given to any particular friendly/cooperative government or population and (b) what form this help might actually take (for example: "by, with and through" rather than a more-direct and more-involved intervention scheme)?