Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War

A challenge to common assumptions about the future of land warfare



Ground Combat reveals the gritty details of land warfare at the tactical level and challenges today's overly subjective and often inaccurate approaches to characterizing war. Ben Connable's motivation for writing the book is to offer an evidence-based approach to examining the future of war.



Connable created and analyzed an original dataset of more than four hundred global ground combat cases, showing that there was an evoluti...