Major Theater War
Major Theater War (in English : "main theater of war"), alternatively also called Major Regional Conflict , is a catchphrase that describes the content of a doctrine of the armed forces of the United States in short. It was drawn up under the Clinton administration .
The content of the military doctrine was that a major armed conflict was classified as such. The task of the armed forces should then be to wage two of these wars at the same time in any place on earth. The speed of reaction of the military to a crisis was subordinated to the simultaneous build-up of enough combat strength for two conflict participations.
Allied support was explicitly provided for in the doctrine, thereby enhancing US foreign policy e.g. T. gave a direction. Over time, the massive US troop deployments in the Middle East and East Asia were understood by the military as realistic preparation for two major wars.
In the course of the increasing downsizing of the armed forces and the asymmetrization of the war , the doctrine was abandoned by the Bush administration . In return, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld pushed for the military to win a single major war faster than before. This was to be achieved through significantly improved communication between all units involved, the introduction of order tactics and a new procurement policy.
George W. Bush cast doubts about the validity of the MTW strategy when he first claimed the right to preemptive strikes in a speech to graduates of the West Point Military Academy in 2002 . The developed 1-4-2-1 strategy then represented a fully-fledged alternative .
Web links
- Introduction on the website of Maxwell-Gunter AFB (English)
- Detailed explanation of the MTW concept on GlobalSecurity.org (English)
- Revising the Two-Major Theater War Standard in the Strategic Forum (English; PDF file; 296 kB)
- Document collection of the air force base (English)
- Modernization concept of the Plan for a New American Century from September 2000 (English; PDF file; 853 kB)
- Analysis of the border organization on the impairment of the ability to fight war through peace operations (English; PDF file; 32 kB)
- Analysis from FAS.org (English)