Modern Conflict:  The Reality

Robert D. Steele,
CEO and Founder
OSS, Inc.

Table of Contents

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• Modern Conflict: The Reality

• Strategy Fundamentals

• Three Periods of Conflict

• Representative “Warlords”

• Redefining Security

• Conflict Facts for 2000 26 HIC, 78 LIC, 178 VPC

• Conflict Specifics for 1995-2000

• Ethnic Fault Lines 2000

• Collateral Specifics for 2000

• Threat Strategy Force

• Four Threat Types

• Challenges

• RMA in Context

• Spending Imbalances

• Transformative Spending

• 4 Forces, 4 Levels of Effort

• 21st Century "C4I"

• 21st Century Civil-Military Relations

• Net Assessment

• Changing Order of Battle

• A Question of Balance

• Duties of the Core Force

• Aspects of the Core Force