Modern War Institute – The Army has new operational warfighting guidance. General Christopher LaNeve’s How the Army Fights organizes landpower around four interdependent elements that enable operational maneuver: convergence, strike, close battle, and endurance. Although principally concerned with how expeditionary landpower can achieve strategic objectives, this framework has profound implications for maritime campaigns. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the contested zones of the northwestern Pacific, where the US military and its allies face an adversary capable of contesting American access through integrated missile networks, maritime surveillance, electronic warfare, amphibious assault, and increasingly sophisticated networks of unmanned systems. For the Army, this will require employing landpower to increasingly enable naval freedom of action while denying adversary aggression. In that context, the Army’s ability to seize and control terrain, employ fires across domains, integrate multidomain effects, and sustain distributed operations can transform archipelago and littoral networks into fortified positions of operational advantage.