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Putting the Army's New Doctrine Into Practice

Well, it's official. The Army's new capstone field manual, FM 3-0 Operations, assigns stability operations-the military buzzword for constabulary (or, as some would have it, nationbuilding) duties-a priority equal to combat operations. If doctrine is the formal expression of an army's understanding of its obligations, today's may be said, finally, to have caught up with reality.

Just what that means for the future, however, remains in many ways unclear. At the moment, if there's any deficit in Army capabilities, it isn't in stability operations. On the contrary, simply by virtue of six years of repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, today's soldiers probably have accumulated more ...

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