Joshua Edwards
Effective communication is vital for any team to achieve its goals, which is amplified as a team extends from team to country. The challenge becomes daunting when considering the cultural diversity between organizations and individuals in the melting pot of our country. One problem with communication is the inability to define fundamental terminology that can be used to frame common ground to facilitate understanding across diverse organizations and people. Another problem with communication is that terminology, once established, can take monumental efforts to effectively update in the face of common practice. On other occasions, terminology is established with the constraints of cultural bias, which can fail to communicate the threat. The point of this paper is to explore the need to update concepts of Irregular Warfare, gray zone activities, and introduce regular warfare to ensure effective communication for a combined national defense effort.
The armed forces have been the focal point of national defense for centuries. The United States (US) has consistently demonstrated the ability to field exquisite game-changing capability that would deter any rational actor from engaging in conventional warfare. Nuclear weapons, nuclear-powered submarines, stealth technology, and precision weapons are but a handful of capabilities that prevented a major adversary from irresponsible escalation. Adversaries must therefore adapt outside of military pursuits to realize their ambitions. These adaptations come in the form of statecraft, economic power, subversion, coercion, disinformation, and deception aimed at military and civilian targets.
No comments:
Post a Comment