ABSTRACT
In 2001, Williamson Murray wrote that, “at the start of the 21st century, the Army confronts the reality that the ending of the Cold War a decade ago so altered the strategic landscape that virtually all of the strategic verities of a 50-year period disappeared. The adjustment of that reality is still going on.” Despite this phenomenon, he observed that, “with the exception of the 7-year period during the Vietnam War, from 1950 on, the Army focused almost single-mindedly on how best to deter and, if deterrence failed, fight a war in Central Europe” (Murray 2001, 2). The intellectual outgrowth of this past effort, of course, was the advent of AirLand Battle. As Soldiers and Airmen alike look to fill the void with a new combined-arms strategy for war in the Twenty-first century, the answer may be AirLandBattle21.
