Get Flat, or Get Flattened: Adapting to the Forces of Globalization

Abstract

The legacy international order that the United States and its allies have depended upon for security and prosperity is unraveling. Many U.S. adversaries have adapted their forms of nonconventional warfare to leverage the forces of globalization to amplify their power, while simultaneously neutralizing superior U.S. conventional military power. National security processes and U.S. military doctrine remain trapped in a paradigm designed for a bygone era. This thesis asserts two mutually supporting arguments. First, shaping operations in the new normal are as strategically important as winning traditional interstate wars. Second, to enable the joint force to align against the expanding multiplicity of globally dispersed threats it must embrace the power of human networks. This paper proposes establishing Regional Security Networks (RSN) to assist the joint force in adapting to 21st century security challenges.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 25, 2015
Accession Number
ADA622628

Entities

People

  • William R. Moore

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Command And Control
  • Department Of State
  • Doctrine
  • Failed States
  • Geography
  • Globalization
  • International Law
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Regional Security
  • Terrorism
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.