Strategic Attack: Defined and Refined

Abstract

This paper is aimed at bringing clarity to the chaos of strategic attack. The Secretary of the Air Force, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and a panel of four-star general officers approved a new definition for strategic attack at the Chief of Staff of the Air Forces' 2002 "Hap Arnold" Doctrine Symposium. The definition was developed by a panel of twenty-four experts who were selected based on backgrounds in strategic level thought and theory. The intent of this paper is to describe the rationale behind the new definition and offer a framework for applying it to real world operations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA424805

Entities

People

  • Russell C. Barnes

Organizations

  • Air University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Doctrine
  • Information Operations
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Second World War
  • Strategic Attack
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.