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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY TO COMBAT STRATEGIC ATROPHY
Description: The 2018 National Defense Strategy was clear in its call to shake off strategic atrophy - to maintain competitive advantage against our Nation's adversaries we must evolve.
- Commander's Foreword, Army Special Operations Forces Strategy
In the realm of national security very few elements ever remain stagnant, and those that do are relegated to irrelevance. As the environment changes, capabilities are developed, motivations shift, loyalties fade, new players rise and old players fall. In order to account for those changes new guidance flows downward from the highest levels of leadership increasing in detail and specificity as it descends to the lowest e...