Ground Combat

Ben Connable, PhD, is an award-winning research leader, a retired US Marine Corps intelligence and foreign area officer, a former senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, and an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's Security Studies program.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: American Forecasts of War and Ground CombatChapter 3: World War II Ground Combat Case ExamplesChapter 4: World War II Ground Combat CharacteristicsChapter 5: Interval Cases—1945-2002Chapter 6: Interval Period Ground Combat CharacteristicsChapter 7: Modern Ground Combat from 2003 through 2012Chapter 8: Modern Ground Combat from 2013 through 2022Chapter 9: Observed Characteristics of Modern Ground CombatChapter 10: Conclusions on Ground Combat and on WarAppendix: Methodology and Source InsightsSelected BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War is an original, seminal, and groundbreaking study of extensive and meticulous scholarship.