5/15/2023 0 Comments Battle space strategic war![]() ![]() intervention, aggressors will have to pause and weigh the associated risks. conventional military will serve to deter most aggressors, and despite theoretical uses of asymmetric methods-anti-access strategies, terrorism, or weapons of mass destruction-to thwart U.S. Few regimes can survive economic stagnation. The glare of the Information Age means that any use of force will gain instantaneous world attention and if aggression is involved, will result in the immediate severance of the aggressor’s external capital flows and markets. The increasing globalization of economies will restrain aggression because of the immediate, negative impact on an aggressor’s economy. To ensure the nuclear threshold is not crossed, states will engage in quick incursions with limited objectives. WMD proliferation will constrain states from conventional war because of the increased risks and decreased benefits. ![]() Largely marginalized by the Cold War, smaller conflicts have assumed greater attention since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and with the inevitable fall of rogue states like Iraq and North Korea, major conflicts will become extremely rare as a result of the aforementioned trends. conventional military dominance, the positive and negative effects of rapid change on states, and the rapid diffusion of knowledge and technology. The future security environment will be characterized by minor conflicts due to the influence of the following interconnected trends: WMD proliferation, globalization (“Golden Straightjacket”), the glare of the information age, U.S. Two conclusions emerge from this report: first, the marked decline of large-scale state-on-state warfare and the rise of ambiguous, protracted, indecisive conflict in complex environments second, because the collective international community will seek to harness American military hegemony, the United States should adopt a broad spectrum strategy based on partnership and shared risks for long-term national interests. In order to link Army Transformation to security environment trends with specific focus on the “Objective Force” timeframe, this report’s conceptual framework assesses the nature of the emerging security environment, the modes of future armed conflict, the Objective Force characteristic requirements to remain strategically decisive, an Objective Force conceptualization for the emerging security environment, and the enduring relevance of the U.S. ![]() Rather, future war concepts require adaptation to the strategic environment. inter-agency, future war analysis and planning. SummaryĪlthough the events of September 11th signified the end of the short-lived post-Cold War era, they did not necessarily render obsolete U.S. In this context, these variables influence the path that Transformation must take. ![]() The authors have superbly framed the strategic environment into four strategic battlespaces and have examined the ways future adversaries will operate within them to thwart U.S. Traditional warfighting has changed in the post 9-11 era. The authors examine the trends in the strategic environment in their development of the Future War/Future Battlespace. ![]()
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