arms, it has prevented us from beginning to
make the institutional adaptations necessary
to cope with the increasing connectedness of
the more-military and less-military aspects of
contemporary warfare.
If operational art is the entirety of
warfare, from campaign design down to
battalion level—and if it is principally the
purview of the military—then the type
of “national campaigns” envisaged in the
joint operating environment, seeking the
coherent and direct application of all of
the elements of national power, are beyond
our reach. Perhaps we should use the term
strategic art to encompass the bureaucratic
effort required to deal with the types of
diffuse, nuanced, and complex problems
envisioned in the joint operating environment.
At present, operational art has filled
that space—as it surreptitiously threatens to
fill the space occupied by tactics and even
minor tactics. If battalion commanders are
operational artists, then surely the strategic
corporal also needs to be one.
Despite the doctrine that is presently
published by the world’s militaries, there is
no evidence that politicians are content to
set concrete objectives and then sit back and
passively watch the conduct of a war for which
they are responsible to both their domestic
and international audiences now and for the
rest of history. The U.S. theory of an operational
level of war charged with campaign
planning and working in conjunction with
arms, it has prevented us from beginning to
make the institutional adaptations necessary
to cope with the increasing connectedness of
the more-military and less-military aspects of
contemporary warfare.
If operational art is the entirety of
warfare, from campaign design down to
battalion level—and if it is principally the
purview of the military—then the type
of “national campaigns” envisaged in the
joint operating environment, seeking the
coherent and direct application of all of
the elements of national power, are beyond
our reach. Perhaps we should use the term
strategic art to encompass the bureaucratic
effort required to deal with the types of
diffuse, nuanced, and complex problems
envisioned in the joint operating environment.
At present, operational art has filled
that space—as it surreptitiously threatens to
fill the space occupied by tactics and even
minor tactics. If battalion commanders are
operational artists, then surely the strategic
corporal also needs to be one.
Despite the doctrine that is presently
published by the world’s militaries, there is
no evidence that politicians are content to
set concrete objectives and then sit back and
passively watch the conduct of a war for which
they are responsible to both their domestic
and international audiences now and for the
rest of history. The U.S. theory of an operational
level of war charged with campaign
planning and working in conjunction with
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