Army Strategic Initiatives

Army Strategic Initiatives
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Outplayed

Outplayed
Author: U. S. Army War College
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-11-09
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781365522116

Sponsored by the Army Capabilities Integration Center and in collaboration with the Joint Staff's Deputy Directorate for Global Operations (Strategic Multi-Layer Assessment Branch), this report examines the emergence of gray zone competition and conflict as important pacers for U.S. defense strategy. The authors argue that gray zone challenges are unique defense-relevant issues sharing three common characteristics-hybridity, menace to defense and military convention, and profound and paralyzing risk-confusion. This report and its authors offer an important opening venture into a vexing strategic question for senior defense and military leadership on the subject of gray zone threats. Namely, how can the American defense enterprise adjust to an era of relentless revisionist and rejectionist opposition to U.S. power? On the one hand, purposeful U.S. competitors pursue meaningful revision of the U.S.-led status quo through campaign-quality combinations of influence, intimidation, coercion, and aggression.

Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction

Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Antulio J. Echevarria II
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2024
Genre: History
ISBN: 0197760155

Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction adapts Clausewitz's framework to highlight the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, Antulio J. Echevarria discusses the major types of military strategy and how emerging technologies are affecting them. This second edition has been updated to include an expanded chapter on manipulation through cyberwarfare and new further reading.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity in the Armed Services

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity in the Armed Services
Author: Kristy N. Kamarck
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Diversity in the workplace
ISBN: 9781979078405

Diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity are three terms that are often used interchangeably; however, there are some differences in how they are interpreted and applied between the Department of Defense (DOD) and civilian organizations. In the past few decades there have been rapid changes to certain laws and policies regarding diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity in the Armed Forces. Since 2009, DOD policy changes and congressional actions have allowed individuals who are gay to serve openly with recognition for their same-sex spouses as dependents for the purpose of military benefits and opened all combat assignments to women. On June 30, 2016, DOD announced the end of restrictions on service for those transgender troops already openly serving. However, in August of 2017, President Donald J. Trump directed DOD to (1) continue to prohibit new transgender recruits, (2) review policies on existing transgender sevicemembers, and (3) restrict spending on surgical procedures related to gender transition. Military manpower requirements derive from National Military Strategy and are determined by the military services based on the workload required to deliver essential capabilities. Some argue that to effectively deliver these capabilities a workforce with a range of backgrounds, skills and knowledge is required. Those who support broader diversity and equal-opportunity initiatives in the military contend that a more diverse force is a better performing and more efficient force. They point out that the nature of modern warfare has been shifting, requiring a range of new skills and competencies, and that these skills may be found in a more diverse cross-section of American youth. Some argue that historically underrepresented demographic groups continue to be at a disadvantage within the military and that efforts should be intensified to ensure equal opportunity for individuals in those groups. Some also contend that if the military is to remain competitive with private-sector employers in recruiting a skilled workforce, DOD should offer the same equal-opportunity rights and protections that civilian employees have. Others oppose the expansion of diversity to include non-traditional gender identification because they fear it would undermine military cohesion and effectiveness, and would not accurately reflect American society as a whole.

Military Strategy

Military Strategy
Author: Joseph Wylie, Jr
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1612515150

“No military service can long remain effective without searching self-criticism and continuous re-examination of its own ideas. Wylie, well known in the Navy, is a refreshingly and outspoken individual, thoroughly at home on the bridge of a ship, but equally at home in the semantics of dialectical discussion. He has produced a simple but relevant little work in an attempt to promote order in the discussion of strategy. . . . To the traditional theories of strategy-the maritime theory, the air theory, the continental theory-Wylie adds the ‘Mao theory’ of wars of national liberation. . . . [This book is] easier to read and understand and basically sounder than the great majority of the involved and tortuous rationalizations of the academic strategists.”- New York Times Book Review

The U.S. Army Operating Concept

The U.S. Army Operating Concept
Author: U.s. Army Training and Doctrine Command
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2014-10-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781502763693

This book describes how future Army forces, as part of joint, interorganizational, and multinational efforts, operate to accomplish campaign objectives and protect U.S. national interests. It describes the Army's contribution to globally integrated operations, and addresses the need for Army forces to provide foundational capabilities for the Joint Force and to project power onto land and from land across the air, maritime, space, and cyberspace domains. The Army Operating Concept guides future force development through the identification of first order capabilities that the Army must possess to accomplish missions in support of policy goals and objectives.

U.S. Military Forces in FY 2021

U.S. Military Forces in FY 2021
Author: Mark F. Cancian
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1538140365

CSIS senior adviser Mark Cancian annually produces a series of white papers on U.S. military forces, including their composition, new initiatives, long-term trends, and challenges. This report is a compilation of these papers and takes a deep look at each of the military services, the new Space Force, special operations forces, DOD civilians, and contractors in the FY 2021 budget. This report further includes a foreword regarding how the Biden administration might approach decisions facing the military forces, drawing on insights from the individual chapters.

Life as a Private

Life as a Private
Author: Todd C. Helmus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780833099693

Who joins the Army, why, and how satisfied are they with their decisions? This study's portrayal of U.S. Army privates could serve as an educational tool for Army senior leadership, junior officers, noncommissioned officers, and prospective recruits.

Seize the High Ground

Seize the High Ground
Author: James A. Walker
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

"[Seize the high ground is a] narrative history of the Army's aerospace experience from the 1950s to the present. The focus is on ballistic missile defense, from the early NIKE-HERCULES missile program through the SAFEGUARD acquisition site allowed by the 1972 ABM Treaty to the more advanced 'Star Wars' concepts studies toward the end of the century. [What is] covered is not only the technological response to the threat but the organizational and tactical development of the commands and units responsible for the defense mission"--CMH website.