The author takes a critical look at the mission assignment and
orientation of U.S. landpower. He calls for an unconventional revolution
in U.S. land forces that optimizes them for intervention in complex and
violent crises of governance and security in states crippled by internal
disorder. In the end, he argues that the armed stabilization of states
and regions in crises will be not just equivalent in importance to
traditional warfighting in future land force planning but instead the
primary land force mission for the foreseeable future.