Multi-Domain Operations in System-Centric Warfare

By |2026-05-11T06:02:41-10:00May 11, 2026|Categories: Kim, Edge|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) are emerging as the U.S. military’s answer to China’s system-centric approach to warfare, which seeks to disrupt and paralyze the connective architecture of joint operations. The chapter argues that deterrence in the Indo-Pacific will depend less on platform dominance than on the ability to integrate forces, fuse information, and sustain resilient, allied-enabled command and control through CJADC2 across contested multi-domain environments.

Seizing the Orbital High Ground

By |2026-05-11T05:51:35-10:00May 11, 2026|Categories: Edge|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Space superiority has become indispensable to sustaining U.S. lethality and deterrence in an era of competitive multipolarity. The chapter examines how the United States, China, and Russia conceptualize and contest the orbital domain, highlighting the technologies, vulnerabilities, and resilient architectures that will determine who commands the ultimate high ground in the Indo-Pacific.

Economic Power, Industrial Readiness, and Deterrence

By |2026-05-10T20:21:44-10:00May 10, 2026|Categories: Wieninger, Forman, Edge|Tags: , , , , , , |

Economic power, industrial policy, and capital allocation are no longer peripheral to national security but central instruments of deterrence in an era of sustained competition. The chapter demonstrates how coordinated economic statecraft, resilient industrial readiness, public–private collaboration, and allied economic partnerships strengthen defense preparedness, blunt coercion, and reinforce America’s strategic advantage.

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