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SLOGANS & STRATEGY, THE Sun-TZU INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT MATTERS

7/26/2017

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Nine Links in the Chain:
The Weaponized Narrative, Sun Tzu, and the Essence of War

By Jon Herrmann, Strategy Bridge: “Decades ago, the unprecedented power of nuclear weapons required new adaptations of strategy. Now, the unprecedented power of weaponized narrative requires new adaptation of strategy.” ​
Ends, Ways, Means: Strategy Nicked by Occam’s Razor 
By John Callaway, RealClearDefense: “ML Cavanaugh rightfully decries the oversimplification of strategy as a formula in “It’s Time to End the Tyranny of Ends, Ways, and Means.”  The article begins to challenge the construction of strategy as ends, ways, and means but then decides it is a useful tool, with the excellent insight that ends, ways, means as a formula is useful as a feasibility check for strategy.  Unfortunately, Cavanaugh then springboards away from the critique of strategy as a formula to the overly general need to think of strategy as a theory.  The bottom line is that strategists and policy makers must break away from the deceptive simplicity of ends, ways, and means in order to develop coherent strategy.  And while an articulation of ends, ways, and means should not be considered a strategy, a new heuristic is needed to break from the current mold.”
Why Strategy Is Easy but Difficult (at the Same Time) 
By M.L.R. Smith, Infinity Journal: “One of the virtues of strategic theory, when properly understood, is that it can dispel clichés and easy assumptions that often abound in popular debate. One of the more obvious timeworn phrases is the notion of military victory or a military solution. Public commentary will frequently refer to one protagonist or another as seeking a military victory or proclaim that a particular problem can, or cannot, be solved by military means alone.”
Speed, Volume, and Ubiquity: Forget Information Operations & Focus on the Information Environment 
By Michael Williams, Strategy Bridge: “U.S. military doctrine began well enough in the 1990s to answer the question of what the mission and functions of information operations are and should be. As the impact of the information environment has grown, however, doctrine writers continues to narrow the focus in subsequent iterations of information operations doctrine by attempting to narrow the field to specific capabilities or to suggest the role of information operations was to integrate specific capabilities in support of operational and tactical objectives.”
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New Concepts For Future War & The "Long War" Tactics & Strategy

7/21/2017

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New Concepts in Warfare Between 2030 and 2050 
By Dennis J. Woods, Small Wars Journal: “World media attention immediately focused on the historic Citadel city. At the same time, Captain Anderson, an intelligence officer in the Coalition Operations Center, noticed that neither side currently occupied the Citadel. In a snap decision, he determined that the Citadel had just became a political objective up for grabs. It will fall to whomever arrives first with the most, he thought grimly, as he pushed the authorization release button on his battle display map to dispatch the area reserve. This will be an armed race for the political high ground. Eighteen months into the First Trans-Pacific War, Megacities had become the new battlefield. Once avoided by armies, it was now the new normal.”
U.S. Military: Too Much Tactics, Too Little Strategy
By Robert Cassidy, The Globalist: “A key aspect of this lies in the axiom that the purpose of war is to serve a political end, but the nature of war is to serve itself. War serves itself when it is unguided or unconstrained by reason and policy, or if the political end is not viable within the means that states are willing to commit based on the perceived value of attaining that end.”
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Great Game Emerging Between Beijing & New Delhi

7/17/2017

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New great game? The current standoff in Sikkim between China and India is not so much about territory incursions but instead comes from a ‘great game’ type conflict over who controls Bhutan, reports MK Bhadrakumar. Bhutan is in debt to India and seems to be viewing China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ as a possible salvation and this could prove to be a significant geopolitical problem for Delhi. READ THE STORY HERE
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Who Did The Thucydides Trap & The Trent Affair

7/7/2017

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What Thucydides’s Trap Gets Wrong About the United States and China 
By Albert Wolf, Modern War Institute: “The theoretical underpinnings of Thucydides’s Trap are problematic. Given the calamitous consequences of a rivalry or war between the United States and China, an assessment of the relationship between Washington and Beijing should not be limited to security dilemma theory.”
Who Did Thucydides Trap?
By Michael Vlahos, The American Conservative: “How do you turn a metaphor into an axiom? Try: “Strategist appropriation.” When writing on politics and war, this means lardering your first few graphs with maxims from so-called “masters of war,” preferably Sun Tzu or Clausewitz. Their unassailable wisdom gives your argument the burnish of authority.”
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