National Military Strategy of the United States

Abstract

The world has changed in dramatic ways. This national military strategy reflects those changes with a shift in focus to adaptive regional planning providing more options for decisionmakers. Forces, ready to move either from CONUS or forward deployed locations to the scene of a crisis, have the strategic agility to mass overwhelming force and terminate conflict swiftly and decisively. The strategy recognizes the very positive developments in the former Soviet Union and acknowledges the changes brought about through the arms control process. The strategy has evolved as profound changes continued throughout the world and reflects a vision of the coming decade. The distinguishing feature of this new strategy is that it focuses more on regional threats and less on global confrontation. The recent conflict in the Gulf followed the new directions charted by this strategy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA338837

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Department of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Arms Control
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Cis
  • Employment
  • Geography
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Military Strategy
  • National Security
  • Second World War
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • Warfare

Readers

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