•National
goal
–Improve
our fitness, as an organic whole, to shape and cope with an ever-changing
environment.
•Grand
strategy
–Shape
pursuit of national goal so that we not only amplify our spirit and strength
(while undermining and isolating our adversaries) but also influence
the uncommitted or potential adversaries so that they are drawn toward our
philosophy and are empathetic toward our success.
•Strategic
aim
–Diminish
adversary’s capacity while improving our capacity to adapt as an organic
whole, so that our adversary cannot cope—while we can cope—with
events/efforts as they unfold.
•Strategy
–Penetrate
adversary’s moral-mental-physical being to dissolve his moral fiber, disorient
his mental images, disrupt his operations, and overload his
system, as well as subvert, shatter, seize, or otherwise subdue those
moral-mental-physical bastions, connections, or activities that he depends
upon, in order to destroy internal harmony, produce paralysis, and collapse
adversary’s will to resist.
•Grand
tactics
–Operate
inside adversary’s observation-orientation-decision-action loops, or get
inside his mind-time-space, to create tangles of threatening and/or
non-threatening events/efforts as well as repeatedly generate mismatches
between those events/efforts adversary observes, or imagines,
and those he must react to, to survive;
–thereby
–Enmesh
adversary in an amorphous, menacing, and unpredictable world of uncertainty,
doubt, mistrust, confusion, disorder, fear, panic, chaos … and/or fold adversary back
inside himself;
–thereby
–Maneuver
adversary beyond his moral-mental-physical capacity to adapt or endure so that
he can neither divine our intentions nor focus his efforts to
cope with the unfolding strategic design or related decisive strokes as they
penetrate, splinter, isolate or envelop, and overwhelm him.
•Tactics
–Observe-orient-decide-act
more inconspicuously, more quickly, and with more irregularity as basis to
keep or gain initiative as well as shape and shift
main effort: to repeatedly and unexpectedly penetrate vulnerabilities and
weaknesses exposed by that effort or other effort(s) that tie-up,
divert, or drain-away adversary attention (and strength) elsewhere.
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