Section X. Equipment and Organizations for Maneuver Warfare It is possible to execute maneuver warfare and 4GW with the equipment the U.S. military has today and has planned for the future. As the 16th Century samurai philosopher Miyamoto Musashi insisted, a warrior using this strategy and armed only with a fencepost can take on a fully outfitted samurai and defeat him as Musashi in fact did. Three hundred years later, blitzkrieg warfare achieved its greatest success, against F...

VIII. Creating Forces: Designs for Multiple Next-Generation Strike Forces Although the strategies of Boyd and Sun Tzu may seem complicated, with numerous lists and in Boyd’s case, hours of briefing slides, much of this, including practically all of Sun Tzu, provides guidance for employing forces and only indirectly affects their creation. At the beginning of “Patterns of Conflict,” Boyd suggests four elements that would enable a force to function effectively in maneuver conflict ...

1403 wds June 18 Section III. Boyd, Sun Tzu and Evolving Military Strategy for Socio-Cultural Warfare Sun Tzu 101 The time in which Sun Tzu lived was a laboratory for the evolution and testing of military ideas. During the "Warring States" period, China broke into 8 major states and a dozen principalities, each attempting to subdue the others by armed conflict. Invasion by one or more neighbors posed a constant threat, so that war truly was, in the famous opening words of the boo...