by Charles T. Cleveland, Ryan C. Crocker, Daniel Egel, Andrew Liepman together with David Maxwell – RAND Corporation
American fighting experiences since 2001 possess got revealed stunning armed services capabilities together with repeated tactical successes. Yet the the States has failed to arrive at acceptable together with durable political arrangements that serve together with protect its interests, suggesting that in that place are primal flaws inwards its approach to modern warfare. This approach has emphasized conventional models together with tools, making piddling accommodation for a changing adversary together with its development toward nonconventional means, together with the the States has proven unprepared for what the National Security Strategy has recognized every bit "fundamentally political contests" combining political, economic, cyber, together with armed services means.
The authors suggest the institution of an American political warfare capability to orchestrate all relevant elements of US national mightiness inwards reply to these nonconventional threats, both inwards state of war together with inwards peace. This capability must hold upwards jointly funded together with supported past times both the Department of Defense together with the Department of State, because of the requirement to move inwards contests with together with without armed conflict, with vital roles for the Intelligence Community together with the the States Agency for International Development. Given political warfare's deliberate whole-of-government nature, the institution of this capability would require back upwards from both the President together with Congress.
Critical to the success of this capability is the establishment, with the requirement for the capability itself, of a national political warfare midpoint for studying, understanding, together with developing whole-of-government concepts of activity (policy, strategy, together with campaigns) for responding to nonconventional threats. This midpoint would render the the States a needed venue to written report together with laid upwards for warfare inwards this infinite betwixt peace together with war.
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