Military Review English Edition September-October 2014 | Page 84

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Cyber

Maritime

Space

Air

Human
Domains of Conflict
and develop innovative concepts, while also scrambling
to ensure they define themselves by one simple word:
relevance.
To this end, the U.S. Navy and Air Force have
developed their future trajectory for policy makers and
strategists in relation to Air Sea Battle, positing deep
strike and control of the sea commons as the arbiter of
future conflict. It is worth noting that these rely primarily on technological measures to achieve.
In contrast, the land components of the
Department of Defense have begun to collaborate on
their conceptual frame of reference for relevance in an
era of austere resources, but one looking to sell an old
idea in a new package. Their answer is neither a call
for a complicated campaign concept, nor another set
of expensive weapons or vehicle programs. Instead, the
idea is to focus on the humanness of warfare and how,
historically, warfare remains fundamentally a human
endeavor fought among people, usually of different cultures, with complicated sets of complex idiosyncrasies.
One outgrowth of such an approach is that it reveals
the need for expanding the intellectual paradigms used
to resea