Accession Number:
ADA393528
Title:
Compressing the Levels of War: Operation Desert Storm and Operation Allied Force Case Study
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.
Corporate Author:
NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI
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Report Date:
2001-05-15
Pagination or Media Count:
30.0
Abstract:
Advances in information and communications technology are combining with the CNN effect to blur the distinction between the strategic, the operational and the tactical level of command. The strategic level of command frequently reaches down through the operational level of command, placing restraints on the operational commanders selection of possible courses of action or limitations on the tactical level of command. The tactical level of command is similarly affected by these same phenomena such that tactical actions may have immediate and strategic ramifications. While there are measures the operational commander may take to mitigate the occurrence of these effects, it ultimately remains up to the operational commander to become adept at integrating the strategic level of command with the tactical level of command and producing the effects required to meet the assigned political objectives.
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Subject Categories:
- Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics