The fast tempo decisive combat operations has been called the "New
American Way of War." This is in contrast to the traditional
"American Way of War" which emphasized using massive amounts of
firepower in a "grinding strategy of attritions" like the United
States did against Germany and Japan in World War II. A major
problem for Joint Force commanders and their staffs is that the
speed of campaign in this "New American Way of War" challenges
their ability to adequately plan for both the decisive war fight
and the transition to post conflict operations. Campaigns of
attrition in the traditional "American Way of War" tended to be
long and therefore there was time during the war fight to plan for
the aftermath. Obviously, a solution to this problem is not to
revert back to the attrition based strategy, but to figure out how
to best organize our commands to deal with this planning
complexity. There are many implications with this transition from
war fighting to the post conflict across the echelons of command
and levels of war from training of combat forces to the integration
of the interagency into the operational concept. This monograph
focuses on one such implication of this new American way of war,
the ability for the command structure to adequately plan through
the entire campaign. The monograph's thesis is to better facilitate
the transition from the dominate phase to the stability phase will
require separate operational-level headquarters, with sufficient
training and expertise, focused on each of these phases working
under a geographic combatant commander's overall operational
design. In operational design, it is important to get the overall
command structure right with appropriate levels of responsibility
and clear relationships and objectives. An examination of three
past operations will reveal insights on the validity of the
hypothesis. The first case study is General Eisenhower's Supreme
Headquarters'; Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) in the European
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Imprint: |
Biblioscholar
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2012 |
First published: |
October 2012 |
Authors: |
Christopher M Hickey
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Dimensions: |
246 x 189 x 4mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
82 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-249-88292-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
General
Promotions
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LSN: |
1-249-88292-3 |
Barcode: |
9781249882923 |
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