Maintaining the High Ground: The Profession and Ethic in Large-Scale Combat Operations
by C. Anthony Pfaff, Keith R Beurskens
English | 2021 | ASIN: B0H4Q8T9ZP | 278 Pages | True PDF | 7.4 MB
The Profession and Ethic in Large-Scale Combat Operations Historically, the US Army has only episodically studied itself as a military profession, often with those episodes being decades apart. So, why this book on the Army profession and its ethic, and why now?
The answer is the confluence of events in which the Army is now immersed. There are three influences that are most salient, influences which undergird the importance, and urgency, of this volume. First, the Army is operating in a different set of threat circumstances at the strategic level than ever before. Throughout most of its history, the United States has faced one major adversary, or adversarial coalition, at a time. In all eras, there were lesser threats and contingencies for which to prepare, but the major focus was on one enemy. In his March 2021 "Interim National Security Strategy Guidance," President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commented: We must also contend with the reality that the distribution of power across the world is changing, creating new threats. China, in particular, has rapidly become more assertive. It is the only competitor potentially capable of combining its economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to mount a sustained challenge to a stable and open international system. Russia remains determined to enhance its global influence and play a disruptive role on the world stage. Both Beijing and Moscow have invested heavily in efforts meant to check US strengths and prevent us from defending our interests and allies around the world.
The Army's response to this daunting situation of renewed great power competition is a new operational doctrine for multi domain operations (MDO). This doctrine envisions highly complex, layered operations simultaneously in all domains of war-land, maritime, air, space, and cyberspace. Obviously, new demands on Army leaders at all levels are immense, as are new demands on their professional development.
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