A Terrorist Organization as a System: Unleashing Warden's Five-Ring Model

Abstract

The United States is actively engaged in a War on Terrorism. One of the major hurdles in developing a strategy to defeat terrorism is performing an accurate net assessment of a shadowy non-state organization and then translating that assessment into a clear set of critical vulnerabilities. A tool, created by Colonel John Warden, already exists to aid planners in this process. This paper shows how Colonel Warden's system-based approach (five-ring model) can accurately model a terrorist organization, identify centers of gravity and critical vulnerabilities, and provide a strategic and operational blueprint on how to bring all the elements of national power against those vulnerabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 04, 2002
Accession Number
ADA401142

Entities

People

  • George G. Chappel Jr

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Antiterrorism
  • Command And Control
  • Counterterrorism
  • Department Of State
  • Geographic Regions
  • Governments
  • Military Operations
  • Organizational Structure
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Unconventional Warfare
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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