Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence

1. TRADOC DCSINT Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command

2. OPFOR FM 7-100 Opposing Force Doctrinal Framework and Strategy FM 7-100 Opposing Force:Doctrinal Framework and StrategyChapter 3Strategy for Total War

3. National security interests Threat perceptions Political considerations Foreign policy Economic & military strengths & weaknesses Resources & geography History, religion, & culture Technology National Security Strategy The State’s vision for itself as a nation and the underlying rationale for building and employing its instruments of national power.

4. National Security Strategy • Expanding its influence in the region is the State’s primary strategic goal • Planning conducted at national level • Integrates all instruments of national power to prosecute total war

5. DIPLOMATIC- POLITICAL INFORMATIONAL NATIONAL POWER MILITARY ECONOMIC Systems Warfare atStrategic Level

6. State’s Concept of War • State’s view of war • State’s view of armed conflict • All means necessary

7. National Strategic Goals • Overall Strategic Goals • Expand Influence in Region • Improve Position in Global Community • Specific Goals (Examples) • Annex Territory • Economic Expansion • Destroy Insurgency • Protect Related Minority • Acquire Natural Resources • Destroy External Threats • Defend State against Invasion • Preclude/Eliminate Outside Intervention

8. Strategic-Level Courses of Action • Strategic Operations: strategic-level COA that uses all instruments of power in peace and war against the enemy’s strategic centers of gravity • Regional Operations: strategic-level COA against regional and internal adversaries the State overmatches • Transition Operations: strategic-level COA that bridges gap between regional and adaptive operations • Adaptive Operations: strategic-level COA against extraregional adversaries that overmatch the State

9. Framework for Implementing National Security Strategy Peace War STRATEGIC OPERATIONS Against Enemy Strategic Centers of Gravity REGIONAL OPERATIONS TRANSITION OPERATIONS Against Opponents the State Overmatches ADAPTIVE OPERATIONS Against Opponents that Overmatch the State

10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 8 11 10 National Security StrategyBranches and Sequels STRATEGIC OPERATIONS AGAINST OPPONENTS’ STRATEGIC CENTERS OF GRAVITY and REGIONAL OPERATIONS or REGIONAL State Achieves Strategic Goals OPERATIONS or TRANSITION or OPERATIONS ADAPTIVE REGIONAL OPERATIONS OPERATIONS Against Regional Opponents Against Extraregional Opponents

11. National Strategic Campaign • Specific strategic goals • All instruments of national power • Contingency plans • Training and preparation • Allocation of resources • One campaign implemented at a time

12. Allied Country Neutral Country Sea Area of Unrest Strategic Goal: Counterinsurgency Hostile Country Strategic Goal: Defense Against Invasion “THE STATE” Strategic Goal: Annexation of Territory Sea National Strategic Campaign(Example)

13. Military Strategic Campaign Plan • Peacetime • Develop military SCP • Continuing review • Fit with plans of other ministries • Wartime • Continuing review • Modification • Options and contingency plans • Direct operational-level forces

14. Strategic Operations • Occur throughout the strategic campaign • Not limited to wartime • Target enemy’s strategic centers of gravity • Soldiers’ and leaders’ confidence • Political and diplomatic decisions • Public opinion • Interests of private institutions • National will • Alliances and coalitions

15. Strategic Operations • All Means Available • Diplomatic Initiatives • Information Warfare • Economic Pressure • Terrorist Attacks • State-Sponsored Insurgency • Direct Action by SPF • Deep-Strike Precision Fires • WMD • Place Noncombatants at Risk • No Sanctuary

16. Regional Operations • Against regional and internal threats • Primarily offensive action • Conventional operations • Strategic operations continue to preclude outside intervention

17. Transition Operations • Pivotal point between regional and adaptive operations • Transition can go either direction • Conducted when other regional / extraregional forces threaten regional operations • Buys time for strategic operations to succeed

18. Adaptive Operations • Conducted as a result of extraregional intervention • Mitigates the State’s disadvantages • Exploits the State’s advantages • Sanctuary and defensive in nature

19. Adaptive Principles Operations Against Extraregional Powers • Control access to the region • Change the nature of the conflict • Employ operational shielding • Control tempo • Neutralize technological overmatch • Cause politically unacceptable casualties • Allow no sanctuary Survive Tactically and Operationally — Win Strategically

20. Strategic Information Warfare The synergistic effort of the State to control or manipulate information events in the strategic environment, be they political, economic, military, or diplomatic in nature.

21. Elements of IW • Electronic warfare • Computer warfare • Deception • Physical destruction • Protection and security measures • Perception management • Information attack

22. Information Environment and Infrastructure • Global information infrastructure (GII) • Mostly outside of military control • Worldwide interconnection • Vast amounts of information available • Within the GII, various countries have their own – • National information infrastructures (NII) • Defense information infrastructures (DII)

23. National Information Infrastructure Supports • Transportation and energy systems • Defense installations • Banking and financial assets • Water supplies • Chemical plants • Food and agricultural resources • Police and fire departments • Hospitals and public health systems • Government offices

24. Strategy for Total WarSummary • National security strategy • Systems warfare at strategic level • State’s concept of war • National strategic goals • Strategic level courses of action • National strategic campaign • Military strategic campaign • Strategic information warfare