From Kadesh to Kandahar: military theory and the future of war

Naval War College Review, Summer, 2003 by Michael Evans

(43.) Paul E. Funk [Lt.. Gen., USA], "Battle Space: A Commander's Tool on the Future Battlefield," Military Review 73, no. 12 (December 1993), pp. 36-47; Frederick M. Franks [Gen., USA], "Full-Dimensional Operations: A Doctrine for an Era of Change," Military Review 73, no. 12 (December 1993), pp. 5-10; and U.S. Army Dept., Operations, Field Manual 3-0 (Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, June 2001), pp. 4-20 to 4-21.

(44.) Michael Russell Rip and James M. Hasik, The Precision Revolution: GPS and the Future of Aerial Warfare (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2002), chaps. 11-13; and Ted Hooton, "Naval Firepower Comes of Age," Jane's Defence Weekly, 13 November 2002, pp. 17-28.

(45.) See the broad and growing literature on network-centric warfare, including Christopher D. Kolenda, "Transforming How We Fight: A Conceptual Approach," Naval War College Review 56, no. 2 (Spring 2003), which cites the basic sources, pp. 100-21.

(46.) Antulio J. Echevarria II, Rapid Decisive Operations: An Assumptions-Based Critique (Carlisle Barracks, Penna.: U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, November 2001), pp. 14-18.

(47.) Huba Wass de Czege, "Maneuver in the Information Age," in Pfaltzgraff and Shultz, eds., pp. 203-24; Dick Applegate [Col., USA], "Towards the Future Army," in Bond and Melvin, eds., pp. 77-91; Grant, pp. 9-10.

(48.) U.S. Center for Army Lessons Learned, "Emerging Lessons, Insights and Observations: Operation Enduring Freedom" (Fort Leavenworth, Kans.: CALL, 1 August 2002), document in author's possession. A useful summary of this report can be found in Amy Svitak, "U.S. Army, Navy Mull Lessons Learned in Afghanistan War," Defense News, 22-28 July 2002.

(49.) Bobbitt, p. xxi.

(50.) Ibid., pp. 776-823. A view recently reinforced by Stephen E. Flynn et al., America Still Unprepared--America Still in Danger: Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2002).

(51.) Phillippe Delmas, The Rosy Future of War (New York: Free Press, 1995), p. 213.

(52.) For discussions see Adam Paul Stoffa, "Special Forces, Counterterrorism and the Law of Armed Conflict," Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 18, no. 1 (June 1995), pp. 47-66; Eric S. Krauss and Mike O. Lacey, "Utilitarian vs. Humanitarian: The Battle over the Law of War," Parameters: U.S. Army War College Quarterly 32, no. 2 (Summer 2002), pp. 73- 84; and Bobbitt, chaps. 24-27.

(53.) Alastair Buchan, War in Modern Society: An Introduction (London: C. A. Watts, 1966), pp. 81-82.

Dr. Evans heads the Australian Army's Land Warfare Studies Centre at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, in Canberra. His book Military Theory and 21st Century war: The Legacy of the Past and the Challenge of the Future will be published in July 2003.