I concluded my lecture with the suggestion that military planners should stop asking, “What is the enemy center of gravity?” but instead ask, “What is the position we wish to achieve?” Am I right? Is ...

Freedman uses the subjective nature of war to critique the way that the center of gravity concept has never delivered in reality. That is, the use of force and the seeking of decisive engagement ...

Former Group Captain Ajay Kumar Ahlawat, a retired Indian Air Force fighter pilot, has said that Pakistan's air force ...

Clausewitz, Schwandt says, overemphasizes the utility of maximum strength against an enemy “center of gravity” and wrongly ignores the utility of “the fog of war” (inherent confusion in ...

Instead of destroying an enemy’s ability to wage war ... of national security need a more comprehensive strategic center of gravity that recognizes failing government as perhaps the most ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin delivered perhaps his strongest remarks to date on Saturday over Israel's need to protect civilians in Gaza, calling them the ...

"In this kind of a fight, the center of gravity is the civilian population. And if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, you replace a tactical victory with a strategic defeat," Austin said ...