Publication

For the last several years, the US strategic community has used the terms ?asymmetric? and ?asymmetry? to characterize everything from the threats it faces to the wars it fights. In doing so, it has twisted these concepts beyond utility. This monograph presents a substantive critique of those terms insofar as they relate to the threats, not to the nature of war or strategies that might be formulated against the US. Furthermore, it argues that the misuse of the terms asymmetry and asymmetric distorts those vital processes and leads the US to make major strategic blunders. For example by focusing on threats rather than enemy strategies it fails to understand their strategic nature, goals, and overall concepts of operations.