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Pre-Reading:
Strategic Competition - Student Pre-Reads -Strategic Assessment 2020 - Into a New Era of Great Power Competition.pdfStrategic Competition - Student Pre-Reads -JDN1_19 - Competition Continuum.pdfEFD-trifold V.13.pdfIntroduction
Introduction
Discussion:
Discussion:
How has the international landscape changed that has required us to alter how we view competition?
Cognitive Lesson Objectives:
Discuss the competition continuum and illustrate its relationship with U.S. strategic competition actions
Explain strategic competitors’ capabilities, national interests, and use of instruments of national power
Affective Lesson Objectives:
Value the importance of understanding U.S. adversaries in order to win future war
Strategic Competition
Strategic Competition
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle"
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
How do you perceive Strategic or Great Power Competition?
Discuss:
Discuss:
Considering DIMEFIL, how can the US maintain its competitive advantage?
What are some critical points of escalation on a global scale where the strategic competition is or could play out?
What are the implications of focusing priorities on China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran as our priorities after 20 years focused on CENTCOM and GWOT?
How are the Middle East and South East Asia still important to the Global Power Competition?
Competition Continuum
Competition Continuum
“Our traditional way that we differentiate between peace and war is insufficient to [the dynamic of competition below armed conflict].” “We think of being at peace or war…our adversaries don’t think that way.”
-General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2016)
Discussion:
Discussion:
Is armed conflict necessary to achieve our national objectives? Why or why not?
What is Strategy?
What is Competition?
What is a Center of Gravity? Examples?
What is the advantage of knowing/understanding these COGs during Strategic Competition?
Competition Continuum
Competition Continuum
Competition Continuum Experiential
Competition Continuum Experiential
Divide class into 3 groups
Each group will provide an overview of their assigned element and provide a real-world example that illustrates how the U.S. operates in that element.
Group 1: Armed Conflict
Defeat, Deny, Degrade, Disrupt
Group 2: Competition Below Armed Conflict
Enhance, Manage, Delay
The Great Game
Group 3: Cooperation
Engage Selectively, Maintain, Advance
The competition continuum and deterrence
Groups have 20 minutes to review JDN 1-19 Competition Continuum and prepare their overview and examples
Strategic Competitor Brief Assignment
Strategic Competitor Brief Assignment
Divide the flight into 4 groups:
China
Russia
Iran
North Korea
Students will research their assigned strategic competitor and prepare a graded briefing IAW the Strategic Competitor Brief instructions and evaluation instrument.
Assignment - Strategic Competition - Strategic Competitor Brief Instructions and Eval Instrument.pdfStrategic Competitor Briefings
Strategic Competitor Briefings
Wrap-up
Wrap-up
Discuss:
Discuss:
How is the United States facing a New Era of Strategic Competition?
How has Space and Cyber impacted competition?
What are some vulnerabilities in NATO countries located in Russia’s periphery?
What did you learn about our competitors that you had no idea before?
How can the United States (whole of government approach) compete with the adversary moving forward?
Summarize how the adversary is competing within a sphere of influence?
Where does this fall on the competition continuum
Cognitive Lesson Objectives:
Discuss the competition continuum and illustrate its relationship with U.S. strategic competition actions
Explain strategic competitors’ capabilities, national interests, and use of instruments of national power
Affective Lesson Objectives:
Value the importance of understanding U.S. adversaries in order to win future war
“All of us have to come together to understand the threat and be clear-eyed on the competition that we face, a changing world environment, strategic competition and peer competitors are the catalysts that make this change so immediately important."
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