2.2 History of UK Cyber Strategy The history of strategy in military has expanded as technology emerges. Before the 18th Century, the concept of warfare, exist over two levels: strategy and tactics, in modern military leadership, the separation of military and political leadership led to two levels of strategy: grand strategy and military strategy. Grand strategy is the government’s strategy. It sets out the government’s policy on war and peace at a national level. Basil Liddell wrote that grand strategy coordinates and directs all the resources of the nation(s) to the attainment of the political objective of war. The British defence doctrine of 2008 published the hierarchy of command establishing four levels of strategy namely; Grand Strategic – Is the National political aim in peace and war for Her Majesty’s government. The Military Strategy – The strategy of the military of Defence stems from their responsibility within the Grand strategy in developing, sustaining and assigning of military forces and assets to support government policy and achieve the goals of the grand strategic. It operates on two levels namely the Operational Strategy which is the Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ) strategy guiding the use of military forces to achieve the objective of the MOD and Tactical which is the field commanders’ directive for Land, Sea and Air in achieving the Operational goals. The grand strategy was renamed the National Strategy but its definition remains ‘Co-Ordinated
Also, concepts link strategic guidance to the development and employment of future force capabilities and serve as engines for transformation. They are developed to describe the methods for employing specific military attributes and capabilities in the achievement of stated objectives. Concepts provide a description of how an Army
To follow their goals in wartime, states tap their economic, political, and diplomatic resources and experiences, as well as their military ones. All of these are elements of grand strategy. Strategy means the larger use of military force. Some examples include implementing blockades, wear and tear, exhaustion, and applying immediate pressure at many points.
The relationship in strategic guidance flows from the NSS through the QDR as described above and to the National Military Strategy (NMS). With the provided strategic guidance it becomes the responsibility of Combatant Commanders to operationalize strategic guidance through the lens of their respective operational
1. The 2013 Army Strategic Planning Guidance (ASPG) describes an Army that is “globally responsive and regionally engaged — one building toward a regionally aligned, mission tailored force that can Prevent, Shape and Win now and in the future.” To guide this approach, the Army lists four imperatives that form the basis of the Army Campaign Plan:
It is the Army’s primary mission to organize, train, and equip forces to conduct prompt and sustained land combat operations (ADRP 6-0, 1-1). To accomplish its mission, the Army utilizes its concept of unified land operations. Unified Land Operations, applicable to all Army operations is the seizing, retaining, and exploiting the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage. Such advantage provides a structure to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in war, and create the conditions for a favorable conflict resolution (ADP 3-0, p. 9). Critical thinking
The US Army’s Doctrine Reference Publication (ADRP) 5-0 provides a comprehensive overview of how the Army plans operations, expanding upon its doctrine publication (ADP) 5-0, The Operations Process. This and other doctrine materials are produced by the Army’s Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate, United States Army Combined Arms Center (CAC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Most famously, then CAC Commander Lt. General David Petraeus, before his later ignominious downfall as Director of CIA, spearheaded the production in 2006 of Army Field Manual FM 3-24, Counterinsurgency. Ft. Leavenworth is also home to the Army’s Command and General Staff Officer’s Course (CGSOC) (the basics of Army planning methodology), the School of Advanced Military
In “Cyber war is Already Upon Us” by John Arquilla. Arquilla argues that “cyber war has arrived” and there needs to be focus on what can be done to control it (Arquilla 4). Arquilla provides examples of cyber attacks that he considers to be instances of cyber war to argue his point. To be considered an act of war, an attack must be potentially violent, purposeful, and political (Lecture 20. Slide 5). Many of the attacks that Arquilla refers to were purposeful and political, making them comparable to specific battles within a war. However, they should not be classified as entire wars by themselves because traditionally war is defined as a period of ongoing conflict and not one specific attack. While cyber war is a possibility, nothing in
The second strategic tool is economics. Economics is underutilized as a strategic policy; its role is also not understood in success in war. First businesses should always be able to profit, even during times of
This definition resonates with me as the critical component of fully understanding the operational landscape and political objectives while working to nest military operations to meet the prescribed end-state. A specific example that stood out to me during the Gulf War case study was the initial offensive plan developed by General Schwarzkopf and Central Command (CENTCOM) should the President decide to forcibly remove the Iraqis from Kuwait. While the initial plan did provide the Commander in Chief a concept of how the “ends” could be attained within the “means” available, the plan did not provide alternate recommended other “ways” to achieve that goal. It can be argued that this was short-sided on the part of General Schwarzkopf or may have been his way of highlighting the need for additional capability, but without addressing the risks identified based upon the available means, this plan put our policy makers in a difficult position. I believe that General Schwarzkopf was aware of the political arrangement that initially capped the total number forces allowed in Saudi Arabia and as such should, as a strategic planner, voiced his concerns earlier through the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Understanding the nuances associated with integrating joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational capabilities on this grand scale requires diplomatic deftness in recognizing the opportunity for points of friction due to organizational agendas and national caveats and plan to account for them. To succeed as a strategic planner it is imperative to maintain full domestic and international political awareness in order to better understand competing factors that influence and impact the complexity of problems, while at the same time have an
The Army Force Management Program (AFMP) provides integral guidance in developing the future force. In essence, the AFMP provides directional adjustments to the existing force, balances force structure requirements (manpower and equipment) within available and planned resourcing (i.e. people, equipment, time, and resources) and provides vital direction in shaping the force of the future. (AFMM, p. 1) Army leadership utilizes the force management (FM) process to direct force structure adjustments based on strategic guidance, constraints, and precedence in leadership decisions. (ibid) For example, programs such as the Current National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy, directed Total Strength Reductions, Joint Force 2020, Decision
The 33 Strategies of War, by Robert Greene, talks about strategies that are used to fight enemies. As he explains about fighting your enemies, just like in his other book, which is the 48 Laws of Power, uses history in order to support his claims. As he uses these 33 strategies and how they were used in history, he relates this to toady and how they are applicable to society. This book shows that the successes in history can be duplicated in today's time.
According to “ Lundy and cowling” (1998,p16), strategy is: “ The art of war, generalship, especially the art of directing military movements so as to secure the most advantageous positions and combination of forces.” The Human Resource Management team in the Royal Mail directs the workers by motivating them and providing them proper training in order to achieve the Organizational goals and to get a competitive advantage over its rivals.
As military members we are educated to think very linearly about strategy. For many years we have been trained to have a strategic thought process based on the use of a methodology that espouses three major steps: Ends (Objectives), Ways (Strategic Concepts), and Means (Resources). (Barber 1997)
Abstract — This paper presents a resilient defense strategy to protect the power system state estimation against false data injection (FDI) attacks. The proposed strategy is based on calculation of the risk of the attack and the optimal budget allocation on the measurements. The method has been formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem. Multiple researchers have addressed the same problem but with the assumption that some meter measurements can be fully protected or without considering the risk of the attack. The validation of the proposed method has also been evaluated based on various IEEE standard test systems, including IEEE 5-bus, 9-bus, 14-bus and 39-bus system.
It is hard to exaggerate the complicity of the question of “why strategy is difficult”. Any one aspect – definition, design, implementation, evaluation, and theory – is a topic for developing a series of books. However, none of them can shy away from one question: what is the purpose of strategy? Therefore, what lies at the heart of the difficulties mostly comes from answering this question. In this article, it argues that the purpose of strategy is to make war usable for policy. Therefore, to achieve this purpose, strategy must fulfil three requirements: mastering the grammar of war in order to make the most of military engagement for political ends while keep it under policy’s control;