USSTRATCOM: A Command for the 21st Century

Abstract

Addressing today's threats and security challenges and supporting deployed forces and allies require new approaches to integrate and synchronize action, empower subordinates, and increase operational speed. Willingness to change is no longer optional as U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) rethinks its approach to the challenges it faces. Redefining Global Deterrence Marshall McLuhan said, "There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening."1 For the Department of Defense, what is happening today requires us to adapt to confront a broad spectrum of threats from near-peer nation-states to small bands of radical extremists bent on inflicting catastrophic damage.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA522170

Entities

People

  • James E. Cartwright

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Networks
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Information Warfare
  • National Security
  • Reconnaissance
  • Security
  • Terrorists
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Strategic Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Game Theory.
  • Strategic Security Studies