The Problem with the U.S. is that we don't usually mobilize effectively until our nation is attacked violently (as in Pearl Harbor). If you study History the nation was very pacifist and withdrawn from the world after World War I and only after Pearl Harbor did we fully mobilize in realizing we were threatened by both Hitler and Japan at that time.
Right now the U.S. is sort of ambivalent about what is happening on earth too just like the mid 1930s. However, it is likely we will have to mobilize once again within 5 to 20 years to defend ourselves once again.
So, I thought looking at psychological warfare as applied to strategic military goals might be necessary about now to start to prepare for our future.
Because the price of oil is so high (relatively speaking to how much it cost in the 1940s to the 1970s) warfare is now extremely expensive worldwide. So, in some ways it is cost prohibitive. So, because of this psychological warfare is much less expensive than actually having a real war.
So, psychological warfare is preferable to a real war because a real war can completely bankrupt whole nations or areas of the world now with the price of oil so relatively high worldwide.
So, establishing a nation's strategic goals can be adapted to the type of psychological warfare that nation will craft to stay a whole nation and not physically attacked by other nations.
Strategic goal (military)
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A strategic goal is achieved by reaching specific strategic objectives that represent intermediary and incremental advances within the overall strategic plan. This is necessary because "high-level" strategic goals are often abstract, and therefore difficult to assess in terms of achievement without referring to some specific, often physical objectives.[4] However, aside from the obstacles used by the enemy to prevent achievement of the strategic goal, inappropriate technological capabilities and operational weakness in combat may prevent fulfilment of the strategic plan.[5] As an example, these are illustrated by the failure of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command during the winter of 1943-44:[6]
A critical product of the analysis which leads to the strategic decision to use military force is determination of the national goal to be achieved by that application of force.[7]However, analysis of military history abounds with examples of the two factors that plague goal setting in military strategies,[citation needed] their change during the campaign or war due to changes in economic, political or social changes within the state, or in a change of how achievement of the existing goal is being assessed, and the criteria of its achievement. For example:
The complex and varied nature of the Vietnam War made it especially difficult to translate abstract, strategic goals into specific missions for individual organizations.[8]This occurred because of the economic change that saw the cost of the war escalate beyond the original predictions and the changing political leadership, which was no longer willing to commit to the conduct of the war, but also due to the radical change which United States society experienced during the war, and more importantly because:
The American strategic goal was not the destruction of an organized military machine armed with tanks, planes, helicopters, and war ships, for which the United States had prepared, but the preservation of a fragile regime from the lightly armed attacks of both its own people and the North Vietnamese.[9]The United States did not intend to conquer North Vietnam for fear of a Chinese or Soviet military reaction. Likewise, the United States strategically assumed that the full extent of its power was not merited in the Vietnam War.[10]
Citations and notes
- p.57, Anderson
References
- Aron, Raymond, (ed.), Peace & War: A Theory of International Relations, Transaction Publishers, 2003
- Millett, Allan R. & Murray, Williamson, (eds.), Military Effectiveness: The First World War, Volume I., Mershon Center series on International Security and Foreign Policy, Routledge, 1988
- Newell, Clayton R., Framework of Operational War, Routledge, 1991
- Gartner, Scott Sigmund, Strategic Assessment in War, Yale University Press, 1999
- Anderson, David L. Columbia's Guide to the Vietnam War, New York: Columbia UP, 2002.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_goal_(military)CachedA strategic military goal is used in strategic military operation plans to define the desired end-state of a war or a campaign. Usually it entails either a strategic ...
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