Non-Contact Warfare: Lessons from the US National Defence Strategy

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Title

Non-Contact Warfare: Lessons from the US National Defence Strategy

Subject

United States
Defence Strategy
Warfare Doctrine

Description

The 2018 National Defence Strategy (NDS) unveiled by the Pentagon can be encapsulated in three words ‘compete, deter and win’. Keyquestions that arise are: What does it mean and how it gets manifested? NDS as the capstone document has been guiding the geopolitical discourse and global security developments. The Pentagon’s efforts to redraw its dominance strategy and course correct its two decades of distraction due to endless wars in Afghanistan and West Asia have already manifested in Sino-US relations. A decade of ‘pivot to Asia’ policy put in place by Obama’s administration gathered storm during Trump’s tenure. 2018 NDS declared China and Russia as strategic competitors. Washington’s assertion of widening the competitive space is based on the premise of seamlessly integrating the US “multiple elements of national power—diplomacy, information, economics, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and military”. A closer examination of how the game gets played by the various national power elements under the new Biden administration will determine future policy directions against China and Russia. The lessons for India are ominous as it helps it to navigate the geo-strategic labyrinth.

Creator

Verma, Vivek

Source

CLAWS Journal; Vol. 14 No. 1 (2021): Summer 2021; 67-84
2319-5177

Publisher

Centre For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India

Date

2021-06-30

Rights

Copyright (c) 2021 Center For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India
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Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

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Collection

Citation

Vivek Verma, Non-Contact Warfare: Lessons from the US National Defence Strategy, Centre For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India, 2021, accessed November 22, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/77

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