Critical mass : weighing in on force transformation & speed kills post-operation Iraqi freedom
Wars are won at the operational and strategic level. And equally important, force structuring decisions made at the highest policy levels that drive the overall force capability development of any military are also critically shape force-fighting orientation and by corollary future mission success....
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| author | Lim, Irvin Fang Jau |
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| description | Wars are won at the operational and strategic level. And equally important, force structuring decisions made at the highest policy levels that drive the overall force capability development of any military are also critically shape force-fighting orientation and by corollary future mission success. In distilling the lessons of the recent Gulf War II, it is important not to overstate the commonplace observation that speed overdrive by way of 'knowledge-driven' time-sensitive targeting through the use of high-tech weaponry increasingly substitutes the need for mass in the final force-combat power equation. Ignoring the right lessons and learning the wrong ones can result in disastrous mental Maginot lines in force structure and doctrine development. Deadly striking speed without sufficient mass to sustain any war effort up to and beyond culminating point can result in hollow forces with fatal consequences. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/905482020-11-01T08:44:05Z Critical mass : weighing in on force transformation & speed kills post-operation Iraqi freedom Lim, Irvin Fang Jau S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science::Strategy::Asia Wars are won at the operational and strategic level. And equally important, force structuring decisions made at the highest policy levels that drive the overall force capability development of any military are also critically shape force-fighting orientation and by corollary future mission success. In distilling the lessons of the recent Gulf War II, it is important not to overstate the commonplace observation that speed overdrive by way of 'knowledge-driven' time-sensitive targeting through the use of high-tech weaponry increasingly substitutes the need for mass in the final force-combat power equation. Ignoring the right lessons and learning the wrong ones can result in disastrous mental Maginot lines in force structure and doctrine development. Deadly striking speed without sufficient mass to sustain any war effort up to and beyond culminating point can result in hollow forces with fatal consequences. 2009-02-05T09:32:58Z 2019-12-06T17:49:38Z 2009-02-05T09:32:58Z 2019-12-06T17:49:38Z 2004 2004 Working Paper Lim, I. F. J. (2004). Critical mass : weighing in on force transformation & speed kills post-operation Iraqi freedom. (RSIS Working Paper, No. 58). Singapore: Nanyang Technological University. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90548 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/4457 RSIS Working Papers ; 058/04 Nanyang Technological University 40 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science::Strategy::Asia Lim, Irvin Fang Jau Critical mass : weighing in on force transformation & speed kills post-operation Iraqi freedom |
| title | Critical mass : weighing in on force transformation & speed kills post-operation Iraqi freedom |
| title_full | Critical mass : weighing in on force transformation & speed kills post-operation Iraqi freedom |
| title_fullStr | Critical mass : weighing in on force transformation & speed kills post-operation Iraqi freedom |
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| title_short | Critical mass : weighing in on force transformation & speed kills post-operation Iraqi freedom |
| title_sort | critical mass weighing in on force transformation speed kills post operation iraqi freedom |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science::Strategy::Asia |
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