Wright Flyer Paper : Center of Gravity Analysis and Operational Design; Ensuring a Logical Linkage among National Strategic Objectives; Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic Instruments of Power; and the Military Campaign, Vol. 38

By Major Jacob Barfoed, Royal Danish Air Force

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Title:	Wright Flyer Paper : Center of Gravity Analysis and Operational Design; Ensuring a Logical Linkage among National Strategic Objectives; Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic Instruments of Power; and the Military Campaign, Vol. 38
Author:	Major Jacob Barfoed, Royal Danish Air Force
Volume:	38
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Military Science, United States National Strategic Objectives
Collections:	Authors Community, United States
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Publisher:	Air University Press

Member Page:	Air University Press
Citation APA MLA Chicago Jacob Barfoed, Royal Danish Air Forc, B. M. (n.d.). Wright Flyer Paper : Center of Gravity Analysis and Operational Design; Ensuring a Logical Linkage among National Strategic Objectives; Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic Instruments of Power; and the Military Campaign, Vol. 38. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
The United States has over the last 16 years demonstrated amazing proficiency in winning military campaigns, but failure in securing “a better peace” as Basil Liddell Hart advocated. There is a need for an interagency analysis model, owned by the National Security Council (NSC), that can determine how the different instruments of power (IOP) can contribute to the achievement of the national strategic objectives, including which combination of IOPs is most efficient, but it must also bridge the strategic level of war to the operational and tactical levels. Therefore, this paper proposes an analysis model based on Dr. Joseph L. Strange’s center of gravity (COG) model, Robert Pape’s concept of coercion, and effects-based operations (EBO). The model could create unity of effort in utilization of all national and international IOPs and in securing the necessary linkage among the three levels of war to affect the adversary’s will and his strategy.