U.S. Military Transformation and Experimentation Historical Perspectives Prospects and Prescription

<p>Despite the mandates of a rapidly changing world the U.S. military today is still dominated by Cold-war era weaponry organizational hierarchies doctrine and planning based on the expectation of massive Soviet-style land warfare. Nevertheless one thing is absolutely certain: a US. military transformation will occur. The real issues are when how and with what consequences. Two historical cases most dramatically represent successful responses to the WWI-WWII interwar challenge: German combined arms armored maneuver warfare (colloquially known as Blitzkrieg) and American aircraft carrier battle group operations. Despite their differing strategic perspectives these two cases (widely studied but not exclusively and directly compared) share a striking number of significant common characteristics many of which were lacking in other militaries that failed The critical common elements of these two institutions (the German Army and the U.S. Navy) form a blueprint or framework from which to evaluate current U.S. institutions and ultimately a historic basis for recommendations for change.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>