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INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Landpower and Strategic Dominance; 3. Meeting the Demands of Revolutionary Change in Warfare; 4. Organizing within the RMA Trendlines; 5. Fighting with the Information Age Army in the Year 2003; 6. Shaping Landpower for Strategic Dominance; 7. Streamlining Defense to Pay for Strategic Dominance; 8. Final Thoughts and Future Prospects; Appendix A: Glossary of Military Terms; Appendix B: Military Abbreviations and Acronyms; Appendix C: Notional Corps Support Command (COSCOM); Appendix D: Army Prepositioning Afloat.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This work proposes the reorganization of America's ground forces on the strategic, operational and tactical levels. Central to the proposal is the simple thesis that the U.S. Army must take control of its future by exploiting the emerging revolution in military affairs. The analysis argues that a new Army warfighting organization will not only be more deployable and effective in Joint operations; reorganized information age ground forces will be significantly less expensive to operate, maintain, and modernize than the Army's current Cold War division-based organizations. And while ground force.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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OverDrive, Inc.
Stock Number
3F3CE580-B6A9-4C69-90CB-F3FB74BB6743
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Breaking the phalanx.
International Standard Book Number
9780275957933
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States.-- Reorganization.
United States.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Twenty-first century.
Armed Forces-- Reorganization.
HISTORY-- Military-- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Military Science.
Twenty-first century.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
HIS-- 027130
TEC-- 025000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
355/
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02/09730905
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
UA25
Book number
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M13
1997eb
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
89
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81
System Code
bcl
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Macgregor, Douglas A.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.)