Gaining the Edge Identifying and Leveraging Frameworks for Enabling Army Contributions to Competition

Abstract

With the emergence of strategic competition with near peers as the defining U.S. national security priority in recent years, the U.S. Army has had to rethink its roles and responsibilities. Competition requires strategies, approaches, and missions different from those developed for counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, which have been the focus of the past two decades. Many Army missions and capabilities are relevant here, but for the Army to succeed in competition against near peers, it must work in an integrated fashion with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and other U.S. government entities. The objective of this research was to identify how the Army can make or influence procedural and/or organizational changes to help tailor DoD processes for competition and to identify existing Army capabilities that could be more fully used and understood in competition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 15, 2023
Accession Number
AD1201222

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  • Ashley L. Rhoades
  • Eric Robinson
  • John J. Drennan
  • Jonathan Welch
  • Kimberly Jackson
  • Meagan L. Smith
  • Michelle Grise
  • Molly Dunigan
  • Sandra K. Evans

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