Hit'em Where It Hurts

<p>In the year 2025 advances in technology should allow air and space assets to affect an adversary anytime anywhere. The ultimate goal of strategic attack is to conduct operations to a point where the enemy no longer retains the ability or will to wage war or carry out aggressive activity. Employing a hit'em where it hurts philosophy 2025 strategic attack operations run the gamut from traditional highly destructive force-on-force encounters to much less invasive but very effective computer-based warfare. The diverse nature of potential adversaries and the vast amount of information pertaining to them requires an integrated approach to protecting American and allied security interests. Technological advances will enable all levels of leadership to successfully deal with the vast volumes of information in ways not envisioned or realized in the past. These advances will make it possible to accurately determine and engage an adversary's Locus of Values (LOV). The LOV is that which an adversary holds dear and if influenced or threatened would affect the enemy's ability or will to carry out covert or overt aggression against the US.LOVs are hard or soft. Hard LOVs are physical things: militaries weapons of mass destruction or industries. Soft LOVs are intangible things: systems knowledge or ways of thinking. LOVs are engaged immediately or never lethally or nonlethally directly or indirectly. Each strategic situation is unique yet in every case the force applied against an LOV focuses on a strategic effect.The key elements of strategic attack in 2025 are system analysis target acquisition target engagement and feedback. Each phase is integrated and connected in real time with the others through an organic 'system of systems' directed to and interpreted by human decision makers.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>