The first notion the military strategist must discard is victory, for strategy is not about winning. The pure strategist understands that war is but one aspect of social and political competition, an ongoing interaction that has no finality. This is not to say that victory has no place in strategy. The outcome of battles and [...]
Here’s a link to an interesting space elevator technology angle (diamond vs. nanocarbon cables): http://www.thespacereview.com/article/916/1
There appear to be as many definitions of strategy as there are legitimate strategists. The following is a list of better known Formal Definitions of Strategy:
Simplistic:
“… the art of making war on a map.” Baron de Jomini
“… the art of the dialectics of will that use force to resolve their conflict.” Andre Beaufre
“A system of [...]
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(Any and all names in the following examples are entirely fictional. Resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincident. No animals were harmed in the making of this list):
He never appears stressed about his work. Many employees have indicated that they are eager to comment [...]
The growing association of international terrorist organizations and transnational criminals, initially and primarily as a funding source, is well documented. Some terrorist organizations, including the FARC in Columbia and the KLA in southeastern Europe have wholly subsumed the illegal enterprises upon which they once relied, and no run them directly. It is past time that [...]
The clarion call for more troops in Iraq inevitably appears with the fashionable lament that an excessive fascination with the unfulfilled promise of airpower is a primary cause of America’s problems there. Had it not gutted its ground forces to pay for the Air Force’s favorite technological toys, so the argument goes, hundreds of thousands [...]
[The following editorial appeared in The Wright Stuff, 8 Feb 07]
Just over a year ago the US Air Force expanded its mission statement, declaring its commitment “to fly and fight in Air, Space, and Cyberspace.” [Mitch Gettle, “Air Force Releases New Mission Statement,” Air Force Print News, December 8, 2005. Emphasis added] Highlighting its newly raised [...]
Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (Metropolitan Books, 2007) p. 215:
The Air Force, however, has an answer to such thinking. Everett Dolman, a neoconservative and a professor in the school of Advanced Air and Space Studies, the air force’s graduate school for airpower and space power strategists at Maxwell Air [...]
[It’s been a while since this first appeared in Space News, thought it might be worth dredging up]
No nation relies on space for its security more than the United States — none is even close. Both economically and militarily, loss of space capabilities would prove disastrous. America’s economy, and along with it the world’s, would [...]