The Hegemony Handbook: Exploiting the Space between War and Peace

Abstract

We examine the implications of Anti-Access and Area Denial systems, sub-threshold actions, and information campaigns when they are part of a mutually supporting strategy. We assess that, when used in concert, they can undermine peacetime American military power by increasing the political costs for us and our allies. This strategy degrades our alliances. Our conventional deterrence- while important for preventing war- is not designed to address this issue. We propose that the military needs to identify ways, short of war, of producing effects in the political dimension. This will provide the National Command Authority with leverage to hold our adversaries' political standing at risk, which can be used to strike private agreements that require our adversaries to follow international norms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1025654

Entities

People

  • David A. Sparrow
  • Prashant R. Patel

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Area Denial
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Governments
  • Gray Zone
  • Information Operations
  • International Security
  • Military Operations
  • Military Strategy
  • National Security
  • Nato
  • Political Science
  • Security
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Space