Too Much Information, Not Enough Intelligence. The Defense Department over the last decade has built up an inventory of billions of dollars worth of spy aircraft and battlefield sensors. Those systems create avalanches of data that clog military information networks and overwhelm analysts. Intelligence experts say the military is drowning in data but not able to convert that information into intelligible reports that break it down and analyze it.
“The challenge for users of intelligence is that all the different types of information come in a stove-piped manner,” says Michael W. Isherwood, a defense analyst and former Air Force fighter pilot. Intelligence feeds include electronic signals, satellite imagery, moving-target data and full-motion video. Isherwood, the author of a Mitchell Institute white paper, titled, “Layering ISR Forces,” cautions that success in future operations hinges on “timely, astute combinations of ISR resources.” In actual combat, a coherent picture of the battlefield is not a “routine event,” he says. List of military strategies. This article is a list of military strategies and concepts that are commonly recognized and referenced. Military strategies are methods of arranging and maneuvering large bodies of military forces during armed conflicts.
Offensive strategies[edit] Defensive strategies[edit] Strategic concepts[edit] See also[edit] External links[edit] Fractional Orbital Bombardment System. The Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) was a Soviet ICBM program in the 1960s that after launch would go into a low Earth orbit and would then de-orbit for an attack. It had no range limit and the orbital flight path would not reveal the target location. This would allow a path to North America over the South Pole, hitting targets from the south, which is the opposite direction from which NORAD early warning systems are oriented.
The Outer Space Treaty banned nuclear weapons in Earth orbit. However, it did not ban systems that were capable of placing weapons in orbit, and the Soviet Union avoided violating the treaty by conducting tests of its FOBS system without live warheads. The Soviets developed three missiles to employ FOBS, with only one entering service: The U.S. Defense Support Program early warning satellites, first launched in 1970, enabled the US to detect a FOBS launch. The SALT II agreement (1979) prohibited the deployment of FOBS systems: See also[edit]
Military Theory of War, Warfare Theory, Principles of War, Military Strategy, Theories, Theorists. Never neglect the psychological, cultural, political, and human dimenstions of warfare, which is inevitably tragic, inefficient, and uncertain. Be skeptical of systems analysis, computer models, game theories, or doctrines that suggest otherwise. --- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speech at NDU, 29 Sep 2008 Read and reread the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustaphus Adolphus, Turenne and Frederick; take them as your model; that is the only way of becoming a Great Captain, to obtain the secrets of the art of war. --- Napoleon The personality of the general is indispensable, he is the head, he is the all of an army. You should not have a favorite weapon. --- Miyamoto Musashi, see also military journals and papers , especially using cumulative listings to browse for articles see also combat leadership examples on leadership page see also art of design "Imagine global security driven by collaboration -- among agencies, government, the private sector and the public.
U.S. U.S. U.S. Military strategy. The father of Western modern strategic study, Carl von Clausewitz, defined military strategy as "the employment of battles to gain the end of war. " B. H. Liddell Hart's definition put less emphasis on battles, defining strategy as "the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy".[5] Hence, both gave the pre-eminence to political aims over military goals. Sun Tzu is often considered as the father of Eastern military strategy and has influenced greatly the Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese historical and modern war tactics.[6] The Eastern military strategy differs from the Western by focusing more on asymmetric warfare and fooling of the enemy.[6] Fundamentals[edit] Military strategy is the planning and execution of the contest between groups of armed adversaries. Background[edit] In its purest form, strategy dealt solely with military issues.
Principles[edit] Military stratagem in the Maneuver against the Romans by Cimbri and Teutons circa 100 B.C.