Yesterday DoD released a paper that explains their strategy for Battlefield Earth
As John Glasser wrote today, "Whether invasions, military bases, or small covert special forces – the U.S. should have free reign over the globe.
The primary aims of Imperial Grand Strategy are three-fold: to use U.S. dominance to (1) ensure privileged access to key markets, energy supplies, and strategic resources (2) establish proxy military bases for use in any conflict and (3) to prevent any other peer competitor from gaining their own dominance, or independence from this system."
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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Enduring requirement for force projection. As a global power with
global interests, the United States must maintain the credible capability to
project military force into any region of the world in support of those interests.
While the requirement for operational access applies to any mission, the most
difficult access challenge—and therefore the subject of this concept—is
operational access contested by armed opposition.
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For the purposes of this paper, deception means convincing an enemy
that the joint force will adopt one course of action while adopting another.
Successful deception therefore depends less on one’s own efforts than on the
enemy’s inclination to accept misleading evidence. In other words, successful
deception tends to be less about creating false expectations than about
understanding and exploiting enemy expectations that already exist. Skillful
deception therefore will always be an art form that depends on the existence of
an alternative course of action that appears likely to the enemy. Successful
deception will be difficult in the future opposed access environment, although
when achieved deception tends to have the greatest effect among the three
methods of surprise. In the context of future opposed access, forms of
deception that could prove especially useful include electromagnetic
deception and cyber deception, which could provide intentionally erroneous
information on the location and activities of deploying joint forces to enemy
intelligence networks.
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Risks of Adopting this Concept (this is just one of many)
The concept could be economically unsupportable in an era of
constrained Defense budgets. In its fullest form, this is a resource-intensive
concept. The emphasis on cross-domain synergy implies a degree of joint
interdependence at relatively low echelons that will demand a robust command
and control system and a major investment in frequent and realistic training
for those forces. The emphasis on distributed, independent lines of operations
will tend to demand greater numbers of smaller, but still capable, platforms,
while also increasing lift and sustainment requirements. The very nature of
opposed access argues for additional organizational strength to account for
higher casualty levels than joint forces have suffered in decades.
http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/JOAC_Jan%202012_Signed.pdf?du
Now don't you feel safe?
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