High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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. AirLand Battle replaced 1976`s "Active Defense" doctrine, and was itself replaced by the modern "Full Spectrum Operations".