Military strategy

The world of 2025 will bulge with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) characteristics. Todays Globalization makes information on advance and lethal technology available to near-peer states, poor states, non-states and individuals. This infusion of information and technology to potential adversaries will challenge the U.S. competitive advantages in many, if not all, domains in the military spectrum in the near future. The United States’ fiscal challenges and current budgetary practices add much complexity to the world of 2025. If the current U.S. appropriation practices and economic trajectory remain constant, the United States Joint Force (USJF) will have much less financial support and stability to plan and execute…

Strategy is used in everyday life, whether swearing protection unto one’s country, defending their people with great nationalism; it is used in any shape or form. Primarily, strategy now is focused onto military topics, much like ones devised during World War II. These strategies foreign countries, such as Germany and Japan, differ yet carry a resemblance in a way. The military strategies Japanese soldiers used were more efficient than the German’s. Not all strategies differ; Japanese and…

Learning journal Part 01 MN6005 Strategy: Choice & Impact Learning Journal Question Part 1: Theme 1 1.1. Military and Business Strategy The term strategy is originated from the Greek word called “strategia” which means “generalship.” But, the concept of strategy is not originated with the Greeks. Strategy is the overall plan for deploying resources to establish a favorable position; (Grant, 2010).in other words, strategy can be defined as a direction and a scope of an organization to…

The National Military Strategy emphasizes the recognition of human, cultural, and political continuities of armed conflict xxxx. This strategy calls for forces possessing cross-cultural capabilities that permit them to operate effectively among populations. Inherent in this vision is a mastery of language, cultural awareness, and an in-depth knowledge of peoples, political systems, religion, demographics, infrastructure, and a host of other factors that can vary significantly by country and…

The U.S. military has long been faced with the task of recognizing and resolving a seemingly endless array of constraints while upholding its fundamental purpose to protect our nation from enemies, both foreign and domestic. Presently, the U.S. government and citizenry are actively seeking ways to decrease military spending, further tightening these constraints. As a result, the U.S. military is challenged to maintain and strengthen its basic foundation using practical and innovative methods…

The 2015 National Military Strategy The NMS provides an overview of the strategic challenges the United States is currently encountering and outlines how the United States armed forces will be employed to support the NSS. Today’s strategic environment is characterized by its complexity and quickly changing situations due to globalization, the spread of technology, and demographic shifts. In this complex strategic environment, the United States military cannot focus on one challenge and must…

Machiavelli, Kautilya, Clausewitz, and Jomini were all strategic thinkers who presented models for describing the nature and character of war. Each of them could certainly be credited with providing insights in statecraft and military power. Each also had insights limited by the context of the conflicts of their times. Subsequent theorists had the advantages of not only reading the works of their predecessors, but also the perspectives of understanding such areas as geopolitics, economic and…

Everyone knows me as the 16th president of the United States, but what people didn’t know was that I studied war strategies in order to become a successful Commender and Chief to the United States Military. I also consulted with my trusted war adversaries in order to insure that I was making the right decisions for Americans. The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states, over the power of the national government to forbid slavery in the…

World War II brought advanced forms of military tactics and maneuvers to the battle stage. The most prominent tactic for the Germans rapidly became the Blitzkrieg military strategy. Blitzkrieg accurately translates to “lightning war” and to Hitler this meant launching a substantial number of military units extremely rapidly in order destroy the opposition 's defense. The basis behind this war tactic is the concept of “combined arms.” The design called for numerous types of military units all at…

Assure safety of American nationals, eliminate and prevent further Cuban influence, and restore democratic government. Reagan, in public speeches and as a justification for the conflict, cited 800 American citizens held at St. George’s Medical school as the main impetus for invasion. The President claimed apprehension at the possibility of these students becoming hostages in the midst nation’s deteriorating political situation. However, the decision to intervene militarily in Grenada had more…