abstract:AirLand Battle was the overall conceptual framework that formed the basis of the US Army's European warfighting doctrine from 1982 into the late 1990s. AirLand Battle emphasized close coordination between land forces acting as an aggressively maneuvering defense, and air forces attacking rear-echelon forces feeding those front line enemy forces.
Recognizing that it would probably face a numerically superior adversary on the plains of Central Europe, service leaders developed a doctrine called AirlandBattle that stressed the value of advanced technology, especially air power, in prosecuting successful ground campaigns.