The Communist Party of China’s (CPC) narrative warfare aims to kill the will of the people, the basis of democracy, […]
Our predicament with TikTok results from the PRC’s strategy to achieve influence and power, and our lack of a better strategy.
Fighting to win takes many forms, not just violent conflict. Focusing exclusively on the high end of armed conflict loses the wars that adversaries wage in ways we fail to recognize as fighting. The latter is the epitome of intelligent strategy.
In a densely interactive strategic environment, influencing networks can create asymmetric advantages by exploiting aggregates. This article shows how with […]
The US national security profession must reform how it conducts deterrence to protect the nation in the AI age. The […]
Deterrence is only one of eight basic effects in the combined effect influence strategy, but we cling to it as […]
Concepts of influence (CONFLUENCES) are critical to combined effect influence strategy. Like the definition of “confluence,” they merge processes into […]
Authoritarians wage warfare with combined effect influence that democracies fail to recognize as “real war.” It’s holistic warfare, so a […]
The AI Age Weaponizes Information Authoritarians fight in ways democracies see but don’t recognize as fighting. It’s winning with fighting, […]
If democracies are to win strategically significant competition and warfare against AI-empowered threats, we must improve our operations in the […]
We must set priorities among our desired ends, ways, and means to achieve meaningful advantage in the information and operational […]
Acquiring Nth-Gen Aircraft
Why We Need Nth-gen Aircraft. Advances in processing power, networking, automation, and analysis are redefining how competitors combine effects for […]
Networking Air-Awareness
The E-7A Aircraft The Joint Force needs the E-7A “Wedgetail” to deter and defeat authoritarian aggression highlighted in the US […]
Today’s security environment demands broad, multidimensional strategies to compete against dynamic threats. The combined effect influence approach expands two legacy concepts–combined arms and concepts of operations–to win strategic competition.