Assess Intermediate Force Capabilities and Concept of Operations for Application During the Competition Phase in an Environment of Great Power Competition

Abstract

Intermediate force capabilities represent a strategic risk mitigation investment that are designed to provide warfighters tools to compete below the level of major armed conflict without losing credibility in the information. This research examines the effects of a set of intermediate force capabilities to assess the strategic impact on a near peer adversary during the competition phase in a 'gray zone' scenario. The effort will seek to gain insights and identify challenges to the employment of IFCs, through several venues, including leveraging defense analysis and operations research department faculty and students and utilizing the NPS warfighting continuum of Joint Campaign Analysis and Wargaming Applications courses. This report describes the process used, without providing the CUI results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1201944

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey Appleget
  • Robert Burks

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Border Disputes
  • California
  • Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Employment
  • Geographic Regions
  • Gray Zone
  • Great Power Competition
  • Hybrid Warfare
  • International Organizations
  • Investments
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Research
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Nonlethal Weapons
  • Operations Research
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Special Operations Forces
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.