A Fresh Look at Some Old Principles-Building a Framework for the Twenty-First Century.

Abstract

Expanding on the initial themes as presented in the book, The Principles of War For the Information Age, by Robert R. Leonhard, this paper challenges the relevance and currency of the principles of war that were first penned during agrarian times and the beginning of the industrial age. It constructs a new framework based on the independent Law of Humanity and the dependent Laws of Risk, Adaptability, and Duality of War. It then presents the following new principles of War in the form of a dialectic: Comparative vs. Exclusive Advantage, Knowledge vs. Estimates, Confrontation vs. Dislocation, Concentration vs. Distribution, Reaction vs. Opportunity, Security vs. Activity, Objective vs. Option Acceleration, Anarchy vs. Command.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 17, 1999
Accession Number
ADA370634

Entities

People

  • David R. Heinz

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Operations
  • Classification
  • Computers
  • Dislocations
  • Doctrine
  • Humanities
  • Information Warfare
  • Maneuvers
  • Military Art
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Vulnerability
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Economics
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.