<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The war has not disappeared and will never disappear. It is constantly changing, in perfect correlation with those who created it, the people organized into social structures. It changes according to the changes in the operational environment, influenced, in turn, by the technical-scientific discoveries. All these changes impose a new philosophy of warfare in which the methods of creating and using forces acquire new valences generated by the diversity and the possibilities of access to the new technologies. Knowing the way in which indirect (having the potential) factors influence the fighting capacity of a military structure is just as useful for predicting the outcome of the operation/battle/war. Knowing this assessment, the military decision makers will be able to submit variants and solutions to the political decision maker, who will choose the one that he will appreciate as being the most appropriate.</p></abstract>

The war has not disappeared and will never disappear. It is constantly changing, in perfect correlation with those who created it, the people organized into social structures. It changes according to the changes in the operational environment, influenced, in turn, by the technical-scientific discoveries. All these changes impose a new philosophy of warfare in which the methods of creating and using forces acquire new valences generated by the diversity and the possibilities of access to the new technologies. Knowing the way in which indirect (having the potential) factors influence the fighting capacity of a military structure is just as useful for predicting the outcome of the operation/battle/war. Knowing this assessment, the military decision makers will be able to submit variants and solutions to the political decision maker, who will choose the one that he will appreciate as being the most appropriate.

The Operational Environment Influence on the Development Level of Military Structures

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The war has not disappeared and will never disappear. It is constantly changing, in perfect correlation with those who created it, the people organized into...

The Operational Environment Influence on the Development Level of Military Structures

Published Online: Jul 20, 2017

Page range: 112 - 118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/kbo-2017-0017

Keywords
operational environment, hybrid war, military operations, structure of the force

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Operational Environment Influence on the Development Level of Military Structures

Published Online: Jul 20, 2017

Page range: 112 - 118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/kbo-2017-0017

Keywordsoperational environment, hybrid war, military operations, structure of the force

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
operational environment, hybrid war, military operations, structure of the force