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 first episode to discuss shaping the theater are Phil Baker, Gregory Foxx, Kirk Sanders and Carl Zeppengno. They join podcast editor Ron Granieri to discuss a variety of aspects pertaining to landpower to include, the National Guard State Partnership Program, special operations persistent forward presence, theater ISR operations and Marine Advance Based Operations alongside Army landpower doctrine.
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.”
…seen by your partners so the they know that you’re engaged and seen by your adversaries so they know that you are really there…this is why it’s so important to actually be on the ground because that’s how people see you…
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Phil Baker is a Lieutenant Colonel and Army Engineer with the North Dakota Army National Guard with 34 years of combined service. Prior to the War College, Baker was Battalion Commander of the 164 Engineer Battalion. His next assignment is Garrison commander at the Camp Grafton Training Center in North Dakota. He is a graduate of the AY22 Resident Course at the U.S. Army War College.
Greg Foxx is a Colonel and a Psychological Operations (PSYOP) officer with extensive experience in key PSYOP positions including Detachment Commander, Company Commander, Battalion Executive Officer and Commander, and Group Operations Officer, Executive Officer, and Deputy Commander. His operational assignments include peacekeeping operations in Kosovo, support to Special Operations Command Pacific, and multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He is assigned to U.S. Army Special Operations Command following War College. He is a graduate of the AY22 Resident Course at the U.S. Army War College.
Kirk A Sanders is a GG-15 Defense Intelligence Agency civilian and a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel. He received a Master’s in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College and is a fellow from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government (HKS) as a Senior Executive Fellow. He had a 24-year career in the Army and prior to his arrival at Carlisle Barracks, he served at the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command as the Deputy Chief J2C, ISR Operations Division. He is a graduate of the AY22 Resident Course at the U.S. Army War College.
Carl Zeppegno is a Lieutenant Colonel and an intelligence officer in the United States Marine Corps. Throughout his career he has deployed five time to Afghanistan with infantry units, as a targeting officer, an intelligence officer, and working with strategic intelligence. He spent the last 10 years working with defense and strategic human intelligence and was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya from 2012 – 2015. Following War College he has assumed the duties as the senior Marine at the Defense Intelligence Agency. 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 Credit: Photo by Elena Patton, U.S. Army War College Public Affairs