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What is Low-Intensity Conflict?
What is Low-Intensity Conflict?
Introduction A low-intensity conflict (LIC) is a military conflict, usually localised, between two or more state or non-state groups which is below the intensity of conventional war. It involves the state’s use of military forces applied selectively and with restraint to enforce compliance with its policies or objectives. The term can be used to describe conflicts where at least one or both of…
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What is Conventional Warfare?
What is Conventional Warfare?
Introduction Conventional warfare is a form of warfare conducted by using conventional weapons and battlefield tactics between two or more states in open confrontation. The forces on each side are well-defined, and fight using weapons that primarily target the opponent’s military. It is normally fought using conventional weapons, and not with chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. The…
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What is Unconventional Warfare?
What is Unconventional Warfare?
Introduction Unconventional warfare (UW) is the support of a foreign insurgency or resistance movement against its government or an occupying power. Whereas conventional warfare is used to reduce the opponent’s military capability directly through attacks and manoeuvres, unconventional warfare is an attempt to achieve victory indirectly through a proxy force. UW contrasts with conventional…
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Purview of DoD in the 21st century
러시아나 중국의 대선개입이나 사이버 보안 관련해서는 항상 펜타곤이 나와서 브리핑 하기에 좀 어색하게 느꼈으나 올바른 절차라 보입니다. 우주에서뿐만 아니라, 사이버 영역에서의 국제관계를 심각한 국가 안보의 문제로 공히 인정하고 있다는 증거입니다
빅터 차 교수가 북한에 대해 경고하는 과거 영상들을 봐도 북한의 대대적인 비정규전 전력 투자, 증강에 대한 경각심 제고, 대비 필요성을 경고하는데 그게 비단 핵, 생화학무기 뿐 아니라 사이버전, 한국 정치 개입 및 주요 인사 포섭, 회유도 포함되 있지 않을까 합니다 물론 많은 이들이 워낙 북한 핵이 크니 다른건 자꾸 간과하는 듯 보이구요
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허구헌날 AK소총 난사에 사제 폭발물, 자살 테러만 할 줄 알았던 SNS를 이용한 ISIL도 발군의 심리전, 여론 공작, 선전, 모병을 글로벌하게 한 것 보면 북한이나 중국 같은 국가에서 체계적으로 하는 것은 더 위력이 크리라 봅니다
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The War of the Future? Picture Big Armies and Many Fronts
By Helene Cooper, NY Times, June 10, 2016
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif.--Kilo Company of the Third Battalion, Second Marines was deep in a simulated firefight on a recent morning here in the high California desert.
A group of Marines on the aptly named Machine Gun Hill unleashed round after round of live fire as another group of Marines tried to seize the surrounding valley from an imaginary enemy.
“They’re dug in,” shouted Brian Somers, the chief warrant officer of Kilo Company, describing the “enemy” forces, supposedly supported by a real state with real resources and who were theoretically returning fire. “This is conventional warfare.”
After 15 years of fighting terrorists, the United States military is learning how to fight big armies again.
From the Middle East to South Asia to Africa, American forces for the past decade and a half have fought counterinsurgency and counterterrorist campaigns--essentially smaller-scale guerrilla warfare--rather than the large land wars of the past. But Russia’s invasion of Crimea, a surging China and an unpredictable North Korea have led American military commanders to make sure soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are trained in conventional warfare.
It is part of learning how to fight what the Pentagon calls the hybrid wars of the future, envisioned as a mix of conventional battles, insurgencies and cyberthreats.
“You’re looking at different level of capabilities when you’re talking about a higher-end threat, and the United States Army hasn’t fought against that type of enemy in a long time,” Gen. Mark A. Milley, the Army chief of staff, said in an interview. “The way we train won’t be the same because the environment now is totally different.”
Future wars, he said, “could have conventional forces, Special Forces, guerrillas, terrorists, criminals all mixed together in a highly complex terrain environment, with potentially high densities of civilians.”
In recent months the Army has held training exercises with hundreds of troops, tanks, drones, missiles and armored vehicles clashing against a supposed enemy force with similar abilities. The exercises are far different from what the United States faced in Afghanistan in 2001, when Qaeda insurgents and Taliban fighters disappeared into the hills and mountains and pulled the American military into a counterinsurgency guerrilla campaign that continues to this day.
Iraq, which began in 2003 as a classic movement of state-versus-state warfare with tanks and a big invading force, evolved into another counterinsurgency campaign. Today American forces are fighting yet another counterinsurgency against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
“All of us, from the Army to the Navy to the Marine Corps, we fought well and courageously for 15 years against a tough foe,” said Gen. Robert B. Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps. “But now we think about who might the next fight be.”
It will probably be, he said, “somebody who’s got electronic warfare, armored vehicles and the ability to maneuver.”
On the recent morning at Twentynine Palms, General Neller was joined by Adm. John M. Richardson, the chief of naval operations, to watch the training exercise--the first time a Navy chief had traveled to the Marine base to do so. Defense officials say the changing nature of war calls for closer cooperation between the services.
“When you look at this return of great power competition, one of the things that we have to pay more attention to, think harder about, is not only power projection, which is what we’ve been doing, but also sea control,” Admiral Richardson said. “Naval combat at sea. Work our way, fight our way in, from further out in the ocean.”
After the morning’s live-fire mortar pounding from Machine Gun Hill, the two chiefs drove 30 minutes down the road to observe another exercise, the retaking of an occupied urban area. Marines had built a small city in the desert, complete with advertising for cellphone companies on the sides of empty apartment buildings.
The town in the simulation looked straight out of Iraq, and could have been Falluja or Ramadi, except without people. The buildings were sand-colored, with a distinctive Iraqi look to them.
“What part of the world are we playing in?” General Neller asked. “Are the role players speaking English?”
The answer came back: “Arabic, sir.”
The interchange and the exercise showed that as American forces learn conventional warfare, they continue to train in counterinsurgency tactics to take on the Islamic State, Al Qaeda, the Taliban--or some other group.
“We should not expect the Chinese and Russians to forgo counterinsurgency warfare,” said Kathleen H. Hicks, the director of the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Or, she said, “they may mass and stand and fight.”
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