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Unified Land Operations Case Study

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a. The Unified Land Operation concept is an attempt to refocus commanders on the idea of organizing activities and forces to achieve a position of advantage over the enemy force by seizing, exploiting, and retaining the initiative. The intent is to create a balance between combat and stability tasks or lethal and nonlethal tasks. b. The AirLand battle doctrine from 1982, define the Army’s approach to generating and applying combat power at the operational and tactical levels, to securing or retaining the initiative by aggressive means. After the deserts of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, as part of a joint and coalition force, the Army identified that this doctrine and force structure was not firm neither suitable enough for all kinds

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