Countering A2/AD with Swarming

Abstract

The United States wants to fight a war of annihilation because it is well suited to do so. However, the U.S.'s adversaries have a vote in this and have decided that it is in their own best interest to prevent the U.S. from being able to fight such a war. Rather, the adversaries have adopted A2/AD strategies that would force the U.S. to fight an undesirable war of attrition in order to achieve their objective. The current strategy to counter A2/AD is a strategy that forces the tenets of an annihilation strategy into the context of an attrition environment. The result is that it weakens the military as an instrument of national power. The U.S. military should consider swarming as both an effective and efficient strategy for fighting wars of attrition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1031572

Entities

People

  • Alexander Macphail
  • Joseph Rice
  • Richard Gorrell

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Aircrafts
  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Attrition
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Robotics
  • Three Dimensional
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies