Part of Defense
A New American Way of War
Highlights
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Why America Needs a New Way of War
Reports
For the first time in decades, it is possible to imagine the United States fighting—and possibly losing—a large-scale war with a great power....
By Chris Dougherty
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Implementing the National Defense Strategy Demands Operational Concepts for Defeating Chinese and Russian Aggression
Commentary
Summary The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) shifted the Department of Defense (DoD) away from a strategy focused on counterterrorism and deterring regional threats like I...
By Chris Dougherty
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Challenges to Force Development in A New American Way of War
Video
What can the U.S. military can do to maintain a quality force in a changing landscape of warfare and competition?...
By Lt Col Brad Orgeron, Emma Moore, Chris Dougherty, Alex Horton, Laura Junor & Peter Levine
The 2018 National Defense Strategy rightly focuses on competing with, deterring and, if necessary, defeating Chinese and Russian aggression. This stark break from a post-Cold War era focused on regional and irregular threats requires a wholesale rethinking of how the U.S. military fights wars.
A New American Way of War begins where the nascent ideas of the NDS leave off to develop new warfighting approaches, operational concepts, and associated force structure requirements.
Image credit: Chief Mass Communication Specialist Keith Deviney, U.S. Navy/DoD/Released
