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Editorial: Improvisation Won’t Do It
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Improvisation Won’t Do It
By Robert S. Dudney
Editor in Chief
If land power advocates have their way, this will be the end of “effects-based operations.”

In recent decades, the US military hasn’t had many large, classical force-on-force clashes. American power frequently has been employed against specific target sets to produce a certain and preplanned effect, not to deal death and destruction.

These "effects-based operations" have attempted to combine military might with other forms of US power—economic, political, diplomatic—to push enemy behavior to desired end states. Up-front planning needs were huge. Still, many believe EBO now has been proved from the Gulf to the Balkans and Afghanistan.

That view, however, has never cut much ice with land power advocates, who seem to regard EBO as, among other things, some kind of airpower cult. Retired USMC Lt. Gen. Paul K. Van Riper, speaking to Inside the Pentagon, described it as "utter nonsense." ...

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