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Mao Tse-Tung vs Clausewitz: A Comparative Study
BraddockCaesar
2/8/2006 4:24:08 PM
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Mao Tse-Tung vs Clausewitz: A Comparative Study
By Terrance Jones ARNG/U.S. Navy
Understanding the Nature of War
Developing and maintaining a correct understanding of the nature of war is a crucial process that calls for continuous adaptation of all strategic and operational plans. This is therefore an ongoing assessment that begins before the outbreak of the war and continues throughout its duration.
Mao Tse-Tung
*Note
?Developing and maintaining a correct understanding of the nature of war is a crucial process that calls for continuous adaptation of all strategic and operational plans.?
This statement provides the foundational and guiding principles to China?s ?art of war.? Target distinction concerning warfighting topics in addition to constant elevation as a chosen strategy that is cyclical in nature, has allowed China to experience continuous viability, growth and expansion on global and region specific levels. While all nations experience highs and lows concerning stability factors, China?s status as an influential and strategic nation in regards to being militarily viable on a region specific level at the least, has been a direct beneficiary of their adeptness at ascertaining the discipline/nature of war and developing future strategies that are tailored to the natural progressions of war in diverse theatre occurrence variables.
?This is therefore an ongoing assessment that begins before the outbreak of the war and continues throughout its duration.?
While this quote is seemingly indicative of the basic foundational principles of warfighting, it offers something innovative and new concerning what has been missing in military planning stages for past and current theatre engagements. The noted quote suggests that any and all Initial Mission Offensive Strategies (IMOS) should be an extension of peacetime war postures concerning our preparatory warfare doctrine and operational standards and our global configurative force deterrents by pre determined force projection strategies that are region specific in nature. Operation Desert Storm and Operation Enduring Freedom both lacked the continuity strategies that have a high probability of facilitating battle predictive theatre occurrences that benefit our strategic interests at home and abroad. The following variables of war are dramatically affected by a failure to use these continuity strategies:
IMOS Based Rate of Infiltration
Battle for Battle Success/ Efficiency Ratio
Real World Theatre Occurrence?s Exertive Effects on Region/ Global Specific Cumulative Strategy
*Note- The catalyst for negative effects and the loss of initiative on an initial, temporal and or long term basis with regard toe each of the aforementioned warfighting variables will be the casualty projection factors that will be a direct result of a failure to institute an operational continuity initiative concerning doctrine and training in addition to the method in which a continuity initiative is implemented in cases where it is used.
Example:
The Pentagon decision to pull back reserve force participation in wars abroad was made due to the prevailing opinion that it would be extremely dangerous to proceed with the current reserve force participation rate in wars abroad given the fact that America?s current operational continuity initiative is not big enough and has not been in place long enough to prepare these reserve forces to sustain their current rate of participation.
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