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Strategy and Classical Theorists (Clausewitz (The remarkable trinity…
Strategy and Classical Theorists
Translating military effects into political results
Instrumental (should move to desired goals)
Consequentialist (strategic effect)
Ends (why), ways (how), means (what)
Strategic "victory" elusive
Grand strategic , military strategic, operational, tactical
Strategy theory
Universal logic
Shaped by distinctive contexts
Provides tools and frameworks
Utilitarian
Does not uncover fixed laws or principles
Sun Tzu
4th Century BC
Taoism
Impossible to understand without first grasping the philosophy, Taoist methodology, and worldview that underpins Chinese strategic thinking
Indirect approach
Liddell Hart
Direct acttacks on firm defensive positions almost never work
Disrupt the enemy's equilibrium, before the main attack
Strategic Paralysis
Rooted in Sun Tzu
Moral and Pyscological collapse of an enemy
Boyds OODA Loop - prosess orientated / psycological paralysis
Warden's Five Ring Model - form orientated / physical paralysis
Clausewitz
What is war?
How can we wage it more effectively?
Established the idea of centrality of politics to war
The remarkable trinity
Violence
Chance
Reason
Centre of Gravity
The hub of all power and movement on which the enemy depends
True for total war cine expenditure of huge resources and people required to find the True CoG
Friction and uncertainty
The end to Trinitarian Understandings of Warfare?
Nuclear age
War no longer a zero-sum game
Ushered in a new generation of maily civilans with no military experience
Attempts to bring greater rationality
Drawn from systems theory, game theory, economics, business strategy
Ultimately there has not been a nuclear war
Critiques of Classical Strategic Theory
Not suitble for asymmetric warfare
Strategy and illusion
BUT non-state actors are still political actors who employ violence to further political goals
