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Article: Filling a strategic-level void.(United States' military operations )(Column)
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- Army Logistician
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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As the world's only "hyperpower," the United States seeks to maintain both the strategic high ground in world affairs and military superiority to advance and protect its interests. Our military is doing its part, along with the other instruments of national power (diplomatic, informational, and economic), by transforming on a massive scale to achieve a broad competitive advantage over any adversary. To many, structural changes, especially in the areas of force projection and sustainment, are necessary to achieving success. Although the word "structural" suggests permanence, or even rigidity, the term as used here refers to better defined relationships among an adaptive ...