Topic summary
Continuum of conflict
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Conflict continuum.
Perkins' continuum of conflict
Before 2017, winning a conflict was seen as the objective of the US Army. By 2018, the US Air Force showed it is important to reformulate this strategy, as part of a larger process of multi-domain operations (MDO), which involve more than an army in a theater of war (World War II and Cold War model). Specifically, MDO can offer options short of war, which can defuse armed conflict from total war into deterrence, compromise, or cooperation between competitors.