Ground Combat

Puncturing the Myths of Modern War

Ben Connable

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Georgetown University Press
03 March 2025

Military history; Warfare & defence

A challenge to common assumptions about the future of land warfare

Ground Combat reveals the gritty details of land warfare at the tactical level and challenges today's overly subjective and often inaccurate approaches to characterizing war. Ben Connable's motivation for writing the book is to offer an evidence-based approach to examining the future of war.

Connable created and analyzed an original dataset of more than four hundred global ground combat cases, showing that there was an evolutionary rather than revolutionary shift in the characteristics of ground combat from World War II through the early 2020s. Despite advances in military technology, tanks, artillery, and infantry remain central to how war is waged on land. This book asks readers to stop and think about the implications of these findings for force planning and future predictions about military-technical revolutions.

This book sets an essential evidentiary baseline for military officers, policymakers, and scholars who think about the future of modern war.

By: Ben Connable
Imprint: Georgetown University Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781647125424
ISBN 10: 1647125421
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 03 March 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents 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

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.

Reviews for Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War

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. * Midwest Book Review * Ground Combat will fill a void in any collection of essential books on warfare....[Connable's] study and understanding of ground combat aligns with the study and understanding of so many retired senior Marines. * Marine Corps Compass Points * Connable adeptly blends qualitative historical case analysis, coded data from 423 modern ground combat incidents, and critiques of doctrine, modeling, and strategic discourse....[He] gives us the intellectual vocabulary to process this moment. * Modern War Institute *