Clausewitzian Friction And Future War Desert Storm Air To Air Combat Intractability Of Strategic Surprise Nonlinearity Modern Taxonomy Dispersed Information Clarity About War As It Actually Is

Author : U. S. Military,Department of Defense (DoD),U. S. Government
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
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Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1521071977

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Clausewitzian Friction and Future War - Desert Storm, Air-To-Air Combat, Intractability of Strategic Surprise, Nonlinearity, Modern Taxonomy, Dispersed Information, Clarity about War As It Actually Is by U. S. Military,Department of Defense (DoD),U. S. Government Pdf

Friction is an inevitable impediment to effective action and was a significant factor in war long before Clausewitz popularized the term. Modern observers, however, have speculated that technological advances will reduce, if not eliminate, friction. Barry Watts addresses three questions about friction in the information age: Could it be amenable to solutions? If it is in fact enduring, could the effects of friction be reduced in future conflicts? And do advances in warfighting demand revision of Clausewitz's original concept? To answer these questions, Watts clarifies the notion of friction in Clausewitz by reviewing its evolution and extending the mature concept. He then subjects the concept to the test of empirical evidence, using the Persian Gulf War to show the persistence of friction in recent times. To explore the more complex issue of friction in future conflicts, the author offers three indirect arguments for its undiminished persistence. Finally, he exploits the notion of nonlinearity to reconstruct Clausewitz's concept in modern terms. Chapter 1 - The Once and Future Problem * Chapter 2 - Development of the Unified Concept * Chapter 3 - Clarity about War as It Actually Is * Chapter 4 - The Mature Clausewitzian Concept * Chapter 5 - Friction and Desert Storm * Chapter 6 - The Intractability of Strategic Surprise * Chapter 7 - Dispersed Information * Chapter 8 - Evolutionary Biology as an Exemplar * Chapter 9 - Situation Awareness in Air-to-Air Combat * Chapter 10 - Nonlinearity and a Modern Taxonomy * Chapter 11 - Implications for Future War

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
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Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:74273071

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Clausewitzian Friction and Future War Revised Edition by Anonim Pdf

Contents include the following topics: 1) The Once and Future Problem of General Friction; 2) Development of the Unified Concept; 3) Clarity about War as it Actually is; 4) The Matrue Clausewitzian Concept; 5) Friction and Desert Storm; 6) The Intractability of Strategic Surprise; 7) Dispersed Information; 8) Evolutionary Biology as an Exemplar; 9) Situation Awareness in Air-to-Air Combat; 10) Nonlinearity and a Modern Taxonomy; 11) Implications for Future War.

Author : Barry D. Watts
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 134 pages
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Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Interpersonal conflict
ISBN : 1478215313

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Clausewitzian Friction and Future War: Revised Edition by Barry D. Watts Pdf

The original version of this paper, completed in December 1995, was condensed by Williamson Murray, editor of Brassey's Mershon American Defense Annual, for the 1996-1997 edition. This condensation did not include three entire sections that are part of this present study (chapter 3 on Scharnhorst's influence, chapter 6 on strategic surprise, and chapter 9, which contained air combat data bearing on the role of friction in future war). Dr. Murray also cut significant parts of other sections, especially in chapter 10, and precipitated a fair amount of rewriting as he and I worked toward a version that met his length constraint but still reflected the essence of the original paper. While this process led to many textual improvements, it did not generate any substantive changes.

Author : Zalmay Khalilzad,John P. White
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780833026637

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Strategic Appraisal by Zalmay Khalilzad,John P. White Pdf

Advances in information technology have led us to rely on easy communication and readily available information--both in our personal lives and in the life of our nation. For the most part, we have rightly welcomed these changes. But information that is readily available is available to friend and foe alike; a system that relies on communication can become useless if its ability to communicate is interfered with or destroyed. Because this reliance is so general, attacks on the information infrastructure can have widespread effects, both for the military and for society. And such attacks can come from a variety of sources, some difficult or impossible to identify. This, the third volume in the Strategic Appraisal series, draws on the expertise of researchers from across RAND to explore the opportunities and vulnerabilities inherent in the increasing reliance on information technology, looking both at its usefulness to the warrior and the need to protect its usefulness for everyone. The Strategic Appraisal series is intended to review, for a broad audience, issues bearing on national security and defense planning.

Author : Roy Kamphausen,David Lai,Travis Tanner
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 131227784X

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Assessing the People's Liberation Army in the Hu Jintao Era by Roy Kamphausen,David Lai,Travis Tanner Pdf

It is my pleasure to introduce this 2013 publication by the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the U.S. Army War College, the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), and the United States Pacific Command, focusing on A Retrospective of the People's Liberation Army in the Hu Jintao Era (2002-12). The papers in this book provide a valuable and insightful review of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) many impressive advances over the past decade. Solid scholarship on changes taking place in the PLA helps us understand how the Chinese view the employment of military power to support broader policy aims. A historical review of patterns and developments in training, operations, acquisitions, and political military relations can greatly assist that understanding. The outstanding work in this jointly sponsored study is an important contribution toward this end. This volume provides unique insights into the PLA's achievements over the span of Hu Jintao's tenure...

Author : Peter J. Dombrowski
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : OSU:32435081764730

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Naval Power in the Twenty-first Century by Peter J. Dombrowski Pdf

Author : Robert F. Baumann,George Walter Gawrych,Walter Edward Kretchik
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Peacekeeping forces
ISBN : 9781428910201

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Armed Peacekeepers in Bosnia by Robert F. Baumann,George Walter Gawrych,Walter Edward Kretchik Pdf

Author : George Perkovich,Ariel Levite
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Cyberspace operations (Military science).
ISBN : 9781626164987

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Understanding Cyber Conflict by George Perkovich,Ariel Levite Pdf

Analogies help us think, learn, and communicate. The fourteen case studies in this volume help readers make sense of contemporary cyber conflict through historical analogies to past military-technological problems. The chapters are divided into three groups. The first--What Are Cyber Weapons Like?--examines the characteristics of cyber capabilities and how their use for intelligence gathering, signaling, and precision strike compares with earlier technologies for such missions. The second section--What Might Cyber Wars Be Like?--explores how lessons from several wars since the early 19th century, including the World Wars, could apply or not apply to cyber conflict in the 21st century. The final section--What Is Preventing and/or Managing Cyber Conflict Like?--offers lessons from 19th and 20th century cases of managing threatening actors and technologies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Smashbooks
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Toward a Theory of Spacepower: Selected Essays by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Waldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
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Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317000464

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War, Clausewitz and the Trinity by Thomas Waldman Pdf

Today, the ideas of Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) are employed almost ubiquitously in strategic studies, military history and defence literatures, but often in a manner which distorts their true meaning. In this book, Waldman explores Clausewitz’s central theoretical device for understanding war - the ’remarkable trinity’ of politics, chance and passion. By situating the great Prussian in historical context, he presents a conception truer to Clausewitz’s intention. Seeking to achieve this through an in-depth reinterpretation of On War and Clausewitz’s other writings, conducted through the prism of the trinity, this book draws on existing studies but argues that there is room for clarification. It presents fresh perspectives into aspects of Clausewitz's thought and emphasises elements of his theory that have often been neglected. Furthermore, it provides a solid basis from which debate on the nature of modern war can move forward.

Author : Jesse S. Cohn
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575911051

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Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation by Jesse S. Cohn Pdf

"Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation is intended to provide readers of literary criticism, art history, political philosophy, and the social sciences with a fresh perspective from which to revisit dead-end theoretical debates over concepts such as "agency," "essentialism," and "realism" - and, at the same time, to offer a new take on anarchism itself, challenging conventional readings of the tradition. The anarchism that emerges from this reinterpretation is neither a musty rationalism nor a millenarian irrationalism, but a living body of thought that points beyond the sterile antinomies of post-modern and Marxist theory."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Celestino Perez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 0985587946

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Addressing the Fog of COG by Celestino Perez Pdf

A collection of analyses on the concept and application of center of gravity. As military professionals set out to do their work, the planning done prior to beginning operations is crucial; and, if that planning hinges on identifying the center of gravity, how the concept is used, or not, could be paramount.

Author : Thomas A. Keaney,Eliot A. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210023608639

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Gulf War Air Power Survey by Thomas A. Keaney,Eliot A. Cohen Pdf

Author : Paul A.L. Ducheine,Michael N. Schmitt,Frans P.B. Osinga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789462650725

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Targeting: The Challenges of Modern Warfare by Paul A.L. Ducheine,Michael N. Schmitt,Frans P.B. Osinga Pdf

This book offers a multidisciplinary treatment of targeting. It is intended for use by the military, government legal advisers and academics. The book is suitable for use in both military training and educational programs and in Bachelor and Master degree level courses on such topics as War Studies and Strategic Studies. The book first explores the context of targeting, its evolution and the current targeting process and characteristics. An overview of the legal and ethical constraints on targeting as an operational process follows. It concludes by surveying contemporary issues in targeting such as the potential advent of autonomous weapon systems, ‘non-kinetic’ targeting, targeting in multinational military operations and leadership decapitation in counter-terrorism operations. The deep practical experience and academic background of the contributors ensures comprehensive treatment of current targeting and use of force issues. Paul Ducheine is Professor for Cyber Operations and Cyber Security, Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda, The Netherlands; and Professor of Law of Military Cyber Operations and Cyber Security at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Michael Schmitt is Charles H. Stockton Professor & Director, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, and Professor of Public International Law, University of Exeter, UK. Frans Osinga is Chair of the War Studies Department, Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda, The Netherlands, and Professor of Military Operational Art and Sciences.

Author : Zachary Davis,Frank Gac,Philip Reiner,Christopher Rager,Jennifer Snow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952565073

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Strategic Latency Unleashed by Zachary Davis,Frank Gac,Philip Reiner,Christopher Rager,Jennifer Snow Pdf

The world is being transformed physically and politically. Technology is the handmaiden of much of this change. But since the current sweep of global change is transforming the face of warfare, Special Operations Forces (SOF) must adapt to these circumstances. Fortunately, adaptation is in the SOF DNA. This book examines the changes affecting SOF and offers possible solutions to the complexities that are challenging many long-held assumptions. The chapters explore what has changed, what stays the same, and what it all means for U.S. SOF. The authors are a mix of leading experts in technology, business, policy, intelligence, and geopolitics, partnered with experienced special operators who either cowrote the chapters or reviewed them to ensure accuracy and relevance for SOF. Our goal is to provide insights into the changes around us and generate ideas about how SOF can adapt and succeed in the emerging operational environment.