PRESENT AND ANTICIPATED ALTERNATIVE UNITED STATES MILITARY STRATEGIES

Abstract

Five competing military strategies are presented which can be used in planning for the future needs of the United States. These strategies are considered plausible within the framework of today's international political realities. A survey of the military environment from the end of World War II until the present identified two constant elements in military strategic thinking--forward deployment and controlled response. These elements were used as criteria to eliminate less plausible strategies. The strategies finally chosen are described in terms of four categories of conflict (general nuclear war, controlled strategic-nuclear war, limited war, and counterinsurgency) and in terms of force capabilities associated with the kinds of conflict (assured destruction, damage limitation, limited conflict, and counterinsurgency operations).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0634401

Entities

People

  • Frederick S. Pishky

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Civil Defense
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Foreign Relations
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Law
  • International Relations
  • Military Organizations
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Second World War
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design