Needed

Preparation for Coalition War

Robert W. Komer

Expert InsightsPublished 1976

A critique of U.S. military failure to take adequate account in our force posture of the special requirements of coalition war. Despite the fact that we have fought as part of a coalition in every one of our major 20th Century conflicts, we have consistently neglected explicit peacetime preparation, and have instead relied on ad hoc wartime responses. There is no longer time for this, especially since the NATO scenario — the sizing case for our GPF forces — requires winning the first anti-blitzkrieg battle.

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Komer, Robert W., Needed: Preparation for Coalition War. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1976. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P5707.html.
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