Dr Mikael Weissmann is Academic Head and Deputy Head of the Land Operations Division at the Swedish Defence University. He is also co-convenor of the Land Warfare Research Group (LWRG) and the Hybrid Warfare Research Group (HWRG). Weissmann has previously held positions at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Copenhagen University, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He has been a visiting fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and Peking University, Renmin University, and China Foreign Affairs University in China. Weissmann's work has appeared in numerous journals and he is the lead editor for Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations (I.B. Tauris, 2021).

Dr Niklas Nilsson is Associate Professor in War Studies at the Land Operations Division at the Swedish Defence University. He is also co-convenor of the Land Warfare Research Group (LWRG) and the Hybrid Warfare Research Group (HWRG). Nilsson has previously held positions at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, and is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Security and Development Policy. He was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at George Washington University and visiting researcher at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, Tbilisi and at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

• Foreword


• 1: Dr Mikael Weissmann and Dr Niklas Nilsson: Approaching Land Warfare in the 21st Century


• Part 1: Land Warfare


• 2: Dr Christopher Tuck: The Future of Manoeuvre Warfare


• 3: Dr Niklas Nilsson: Commanding Contemporary and Future Land Operations: What Role for Mission Command?


• 4: Dr Christopher Kinsey and Colonel Ronald Ti: Combat Logistics in the 21st Century: Enabling the mobility, endurance, and sustainment of NATO land forces in a future major conflict


• 5: Jim Storr: The Command of Land Forces


• 6: BA Friedman and Henrik Paulsson: Tactical Tenets: Checklists or Toolboxes


• 7: Dr Mikael Weissmann: Urban Warfare: Challenges of Military Operations on Tomorrow's Battlefield


• 8: Dr Jack Watling: Emerging Technologies: From Concept to Capability


• 9: Air Commodore (Rtd) Andrew Curtis: Interoperability Challenges in an era of Systemic Competition


• 10: Dr Tua Sandman: The moral component of fighting: Bringing society back in


• 11: Gen (Rtd) Professor Martin CM Bricknell: Military Health Services supporting the Land Component in the 21st Century


• Part 2: Case studies


• 12: Dr Bruce I. Gudmundsson: The Operational Cultures of American Ground Forces


• 13: Brad Marvel: 1. People's Liberation Army Operations and Tactics in the Land Domain: Informationized to Intelligentized Warfare


• 14: Dr Markus Balázs Göransson: A Strategy of Limited Actions: Russia's Ground-Based Forces in Syria


• 15: Dr Eado Hechet and Dr Eitan Shamir: The Role of Israel's Ground Forces in Israel's Wars


• 16: Dr Alex Neads and Professor David J. Galbreath: Tactics and Trade-Offs: The Evolution of Manoeuvre in the British Army


• 17: Dr Olivier Schmitt and Dr Elie Tenenbaum: Caught between a rock and a hard place: the French army, expeditionary warfare and the return of strategic competition


• 18: Scott Boston: Trends in the Land Warfare Capability of Poland and the Visegrad States, 1991-2021


• Conclusions


• 19: Dr Mikael Weissmann and Dr Niklas Nilsson: Towards a versatile edge: Developing land forces for future conflict