Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War - Softcover

Connable, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1647125421 ISBN 13: 9781647125424

Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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 400 global ground combat cases, showing that there has been an evolutionary not 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. Ground Combat sets an essential evidentiary baseline for military officers, policymakers, and scholars who think about the future of modern war.

About this title

About 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1647125421
• ISBN 13: 9781647125424
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352