Applying War Principles in Non War Environments: Unity of Command
The purpose of this series is to examine the 9 Principles of War behind US military operations and examine both the positive and detrimental impacts bringing these principles into a peace time environment. The hope is to harness the positive, and mitigate the harmful. Premise: War is the application of force, as a last resort, when all other means of conflict resolution has failed. It is by nature and practice destructive and harmful, with scarring and unintended consequences the longer it continues Therefore, war itself should be waged for as brief a period as possible, with specific predetermined objectives to minimize non-combatant and society-wide destruction. Every nation creates p rinciples of war to align and focus the preparation, resourcing, planning and conduct of this dangerous, necessary, and rare activity we call war. The Problem: Conducting war requires highly skilled, resourced, and conditioned people. The precision required for these high stakes operati...