From 10-12 May 2022 the War College hosted the first annual Strategic Landpower Symposium. Bringing together students, scholars and practitioners the symposium displayed original research and presented solutions to senior leaders about how landpower can help achieve national objectives in the future. As part of symposium Army leadership asked the United States Army War College Strategic Landpower Integrated Research Project faculty to address the future role of strategic landpower. Taking up that challenge seven members of the USAWC class of 2022 participated in the integrated research project as part of their Masters in Strategic Studies degree research requirement and presented their results at the symposium to amplify their work. A BETTER PEACE has organized two podcast sessions with those students to discuss their projects, their relationship to the strategic landpower symposium and possible implications for the future of U.S. security policy. In the virtual studio for this second episode to discuss shaping the theater are Tim Clark, Curtis Perkins and Tim Sikorski. They join podcast editor Ron Granieri to discuss a variety of aspects pertaining to landpower to include the theater army’s role in the information environment, sustainment modernization in multi-domain operations and logistics challenges in the INDOPACOM theater.
The second annual Strategic Landpower Symposium is set for 9-11 May 2023 and there is a call for papers due by 15 January 2023. Registration can be accomplished online. The theme will be the “Role of Strategic Landpower in Future Joint and Combined Operations.”
Today all of the Department of Defense and the Merchant Marine cannot match the 400 ships of one World War II service squadron nor can our shipbuilding and general manufacturing and keep pace with the known demand.
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Tim Clark, P.E., is currently an Active Guard and Reserve Lieutenant Colonel and will be the next Inspector General for the Army Reserve Aviation Command at Ft. Knox, KY. His recent assignments include Command Transportation Officer at Ft. Buchanan Puerto Rico, and Professor of Military Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. After starting his career in the Active Component, he became a drilling reservist while serving 7 years as a civilian supervisor with the Army Corps of Engineers. He deployed to Kuwait and Afghanistan. He is a graduate of the AY22 Resident Course at the U.S. Army War College.
Curtis S. Perkins is is a Colonel in the U.S. Army and previously served as the Quartermaster Branch Proponent Chief. He has served in leadership positions at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. He has served on numerous deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait. His next assignment is the 13th Expeditionary Sustainment Command Chief of Staff. He is a graduate of the AY22 Resident Course at the U.S. Army War College.
Tim Sikorski is a Lieutenant Colonel and an Army Information Operations officer with tactical through strategic level experience. He recently served in Germany as a planner and Chief of Operations and Programs in the U.S. Africa Command Information Operations Division, and as the Special Operations Command Europe Chief of Information Operations. LTC Sikorski is currently serving as the V Corps G39 Chief of Information Operations. He is a graduate of the AY22 Resident Course at the U.S. Army War College
Ron Granieri is an Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Army War College and the Editor of A BETTER PEACE.
The views expressed in this presentation are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Army War College, U.S. Army, or Department of Defense.
Photo Description: Sgt. Seth Rutter, a watercraft operator with the 168th Transportation Detachment, 8th Special Troops Battalion, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, guides an up-armored vehicle from the 25th Division Sustainment Brigade onboard a Logistic Support Vessel in Waipio, Hawaii on February 22, 2021. The vessel will transport Sustainment Brigade and Signal Brigade vehicles to the island of Hawai’i for an upcoming training exercise.
Photo Credit: U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Michael Bradle