There is sufficient evidence that our Joint force currently lacks the capability to blind potential…
Armed Forces Press By Staff Writer
by Colonel (Ret) John D. Rosenberger
In his classic article, The Principles of War, published in Military Review in September 1981, General Donn Albert Starry—the father of Air Land Battle—argued that a thorough historical analysis of successful campaigns, battles, and engagements in the past reveals there are nine fundamental principles of war—principles that if artfully applied at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war, will assure victory in conventional land combat. These principles are: objective, offensive, mass, economy of force, maneuver, surprise, security, simplicity, and unity of command. Indisputably true, these principles have been mother’s milk to generations of U.S. Army planners and commanders. Moreover, they’ve been adopted by the Joint force.
What General Starry did not address was the fact that new technological developments, spawning new methods of warfare, can preclude the application of these principles leading predictably to tactical, operational, and strategic defeat.
This was the case in both World War I from 1914-1918 and World War II from 1939-1945. This was the case in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia in 2020. This is the case in the Russia-Ukraine War raging for the past four years…
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