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CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED. No. 10-01. INNOVIZION, LLC POLICY • STRATEGY • LEADERSHIP. Roderick C. Zastrow - President. Thinking About Long Range Strike an Issue Paper on Force Planning for National Security September 30, 2010.
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CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED No. 10-01 INNOVIZION, LLC POLICY • STRATEGY • LEADERSHIP Roderick C. Zastrow - President Thinking About Long Range Strikean Issue Paper onForce Planning for National SecuritySeptember 30, 2010 8898 Hunters Way, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 • 717.448.6735 • rzastrow@innovizion.us • www.innovizion.us
Interests & Grand Strategy • US Interests • Nation likely to retain global leadership interests • Threats and Competitors • Rising competitors within international system • International Security Environment • Likelihood of a multi-polar international system • Internal Constraints • Pressures from growing deficits and current account balances • Major International System Change(s) • Potential for major shifts/overt shifts in global alignment • Risks • Armed conflict stemming from assertions of territorial, global commons or resource access control INNOVIZION, LLC POLICY • STRATEGY • LEADERSHIP
TheaterStrategy INNOVIZION, LLC POLICY • STRATEGY • LEADERSHIP The U.S. should adopt a long view looking out across a 5-20 year horizon The international system will look to leadership in providing stabilizing capability and actions U.S. economic interests and inherent strength of American productivity and innovation suggest some alignment with allies, partners, and fence-riders As a result, there is in a potentially large leadership role for America to play in developing global and regional initiatives and capabilities to secure and maintain regional stability
Desired Attributes to Support American Global Interests INNOVIZION, LLC POLICY • STRATEGY • LEADERSHIP Global range and associated access Redundant means to secure global commons Resiliency in posture, forces, CONOPS Responsive capabilities to address hours to years-length challenges and threats Graduated levels of capability that constructively contribute to deterrence, escalation control and, when necessary, achieving military and political objectives
Challenges and Opportunitiesto Develop INNOVIZION, LLC POLICY • STRATEGY • LEADERSHIP Penetrating adversary-denied airspace Achieving multi-source sensing, integration, and dissemination Developing at least adequate electronic warfare capabilities to both protect and attack Developing clandestine insertion & extraction Attaining assured command & control Overcoming the tyranny of range & endurance
Roderick C. Zastrow - President CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED No. 10-01 INNOVIZION, LLC POLICY • STRATEGY • LEADERSHIP Thinking About Long Range Strikean Issue BriefOn Force Planning for National SecuritySeptember 30, 2010 8898 Hunters Way, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 • 717.448.6735 • rzastrow@innovizion.us • www.innovizion.us