Design of Warfare
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Authors
Arquilla, John
Roberts, Nancy C.
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2017
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Summer 2017
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Much of what is written about war, beyond the generally quite searing eyewitness recollections of the combatants themselves, consists of the official reports, carefully crafted analyses, histories, and memoirs of senior leaders that focus upon planning, operations, and the outcomes of the particular conflicts in question. The common themes that arise—across times and cultures—highlight the importance of valor, the subtle interplay of strategy and contingency and, most of all, the determinative factors of sheer numbers and superior technology. What is too seldom considered, though, with few exceptions, is the matter of the design for warfighting. By this term we mean not only the design of weaponry, but also the structure of military units, the concepts of operations for their use in battle, and the information systems that first sense the enemy’s composition and disposition of forces, then process and transmit this knowledge as a guide to action. Taken together these elements form the design for warfighting.
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Defense Analysis (DA)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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76 p.
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Arquilla, John, and Roberts, Nancy C. Design of Warfare. 2017.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.