The Army Operating Concept marks the opening stanzas of the long-neglected Strategic Landpower narrative. The answer to our identity crisis. It isn’t particularly elegant, and it tends to ramble from time-to-time. But it’s prophetic. It’s visionary.
President Putin made three foundational assumptions in launching his war against Ukraine that should have been correct but were not. First, Putin assumed the invasion of Ukraine would be a quick and easy fight. Second, he assumed the world would denounce the invasion but tacitly allow it. Third, Putin assumed the war would deter NATO expansion.
