The New Balance: Limited Armed Stabilization and the Future of U.S. Landpower

This monograph The New Balance: Limited Armed Stabilization and the Future of U.S. Landpower describes one among many potential points of departure for upcoming QDR deliberations on landpower force planning. In opening up decision space for the new defense team, it concludes that DoD should initiate an unconventional revolution when fashioning U.S. land forces so as to optimize them for employment against less traditional but still violent—and often nonmilitary—threats to core U.S. interests.