Capoeira with a Hedgehog: Joint Force Operational Penetration and Exploitation in 2025

Abstract

From 1990 to the present, the United States (U.S.) consciously developed a New American Way of War (NAWOW).Flawed visions of the nature of war and a delayed understanding of competitor security paradigm shifts have combined with fiscal realities to generate an incoherent national security architecture for fighting against peer or near-peer adversaries in 2025. This maturing way of war as expressed in a family of seven concepts misunderstands the complex relationship between strategic ends and military ways and means, leading to a flawed foundation for building the military strategies and capabilities necessary to succeed in 2025 and beyond. The concepts currently defining NAWOW, which provide the foundation for the ends, ways, and means of war for the U.S. Joint Force (JF) in 2025, are not capable of generating the necessary doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities' DOTMLPFl to coce with the future world.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 17, 2016
Accession Number
AD1178767

Entities

People

  • Ian Fletcher
  • Roberto Scribner

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Doctrine
  • Military History
  • Military Science
  • Military Strategy
  • National Security
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • New York
  • Political Systems
  • Task Forces
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.