Modern Warfare

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Modern warfare ranges from small to large campaigns with military fundamentals shaping the battlefield. However, none has a more significant value as the Napoleonic eras. Although France is no longer a dominant power, its military fundamentals influence the United States (U.S.) military.
The U.S. military employs three Napoleonic era fundamentals of Command and Control (C2), professional military, and nationalism. These fundamentals shape the U.S. military during peace and war.
Maintaining peace and winning wars are important. To do that, large capable militaries are required with C2 and Napoleon recognized this. Napoleon task organized the Army into Armies, Corps, Divisions, and Brigades, centralizing C2.
Napoleon’s Supreme Command controlled the Corps that had Divisions and Brigades. The Corps was Napoleon’s main fighting force. Napoleon’s Corps was a Combined Arms Maneuver (CAM) unit that is self-sustaining and could fight on its own. The Corps was a headquarters, which units could be task-organized into with two to four Divisions of Infantry and their organic Artillery, a Cavalry Division, Corps Artillery, and support units.
Today’s the U.S. Army operates a similar formation. The Corps is the lowest tactical maneuver headquarters with a twofold purpose. They can remain Army pure or task-organized into contingency operational Joint Task Forces (JTF). However, JTFs are ad-hoc units pieced together at time of crises. Corps are only U.S. Army units, and do not encompass Air and Sea formations. To account for other military service formations, the U.S. military operates a Joint Unified Command with the same Napoleonic fundamentals.
Today the U.S. military operates a Joint C2 structure, divided into geographical areas as G...

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