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Notes
Epigraph. U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Pamphlet (TP) 525-3-1, The U.S. Army Operating Concept:
Win in a Complex World (Fort Eustis, VA: TRADOC, 2014), 8.
1. Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, ed. and trans. Michael
Howard and Peter Paret (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1989), 30.
2. TP 525-3-1, 10.
3. Frederick W. Kagan, Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy (New York: Encounter Books,
2006), 57-73, 144-175; see also H.R. McMaster, “Crack in
the Foundation: Defense Transformation and the Underlying
Assumption of Dominant Knowledge in Future War,” Student
Issues Paper, Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War
College, November 2003, Vol. S09-03, 12-32.
4. TP 525-3-1, 16.
5. Ibid., 19.
6. Ibid.
7. Thucydides, The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War, ed. Robert B. Strassler
(New York: Free Press, 1996), 43.
8. TP 525-3-1, 9.
9. Ibid., 21.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., 22.
12. Ibid., 17.
13. Ibid., 33.
14. Williamson Murray, “Thinking About Innovation,” Naval College Review 54(2)(Spring 2001): 122-123.
15. William A. Owens, “Introduction,” ed. Stuart E. Johnson
and Martin C. Libicki, Dominant Battlespace Knowledge,
(Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1996),
4; see also H.R. McMaster, “Crack in the Foundation,” 1; and
Janine Davidson, Lifting the Fog of Peace: How Americans
Learned to Fight Modern War (Ann Arbor: The University of
Michigan Press, 2010).
16. TP 525-7-1, The United States Army Concept Capability Plan for Unit Protection for the Future Modular Force, 20122024, Version 1.0 (Fort Eustis, VA: TRADOC, 28 February
2007), 4.
17. Tom C. Schelling, Arms and Influence (New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, October 2008), 2-7.
18. Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty, Sony Pictures, 2012. The
movie depicts the raid that resulted in the death of al-Qaida
leader Osama bin Laden in May 2011.
19. TP 525-3-1, 19 and 46. Core competencies are those
indispensable contributions in terms of capabilities and
capacities beyond what other services and defense agencies
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provide and which are fundamental to the Army’s ability to
maneuver and secure land areas for the Nation.
20. George Washington, George Washington to the United
States Senate and House of Representatives, 8 January 1790,
National Archives Founders Online, http://founders.archives.
gov/documents/Washington/05-04-02-0361 (accessed 23
January 2015).
21. TP 525-3-1, 8.
22. Michael Howard, “The Use and Abuse of Military
History,” in Michael Howard, The Causes of Wars, 2nd Edition
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983), 188.
23. TP 525-3-1, 10.
24. Conrad C. Crane, “The Lure of the Strike,” Parameters
43(2)(Summer 2013): 5, http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.
army.mil/pubs/parameters/issues/Summer_2013/1_Crane_
SpecialCommentary.pdf (accessed 23 January 2015).
25. TP 525-3-1, 19.
26. Ibid., 18.
27. Ibid., 15.
28. Ibid., 36-41.
29. Ibid., 36.
30. Ibid., 16.
31. Ibid., 17.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Michael Howard, “The Use and Abuse of Military
History,” Parameters 11(1) (1981): 13, http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/1981/1981%20
howard.pdf (accessed 23 January 2015). Article was reprinted
with permission of the Royal United Service Institute (R.U.S.I.)
and originally appeared in R.U.S.I. Journal 107 (February
1962), 4-8.
35. Clausewitz, 141.
36. Elihu Root, Five Years of the War Department, Following the War with Spain, 1899-1903, as shown in the annual
reports of the Secretary of War (Harvard, MA: Harvard University, 1904), 160. Digitized July 2008; available at https://
books.google.com/books?id=TuUpAAAAYAA J&dq=Five+Years+of+the+War+Department&source=gbs_navlinks_s
(accessed 23 January 2015).
37. David E. Johnson, M. Wade Markel, and Brian Shannon,
The 2008 Battle for Sadr City (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2013); Juan C. Zarate, Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare (New York: PublicAffairs,
2013).
38. Macgregor Knox and Williamson Murray, The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050 (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2001), 188.
39. TP 525-3-1, 33.
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