Multi-Domain Operations: The US Wages Constant War and Across All Domains

The US military is putting together what it calls “multi-domain operations” which include traditional air, land, and sea domains, but also space and cyberspace. They are also creating “Multi-Domain Task Forces” to overcome Chinese and Russian defenses to allow the US to act with “freedom” globally.

However, the US has already been perfecting “multi-domain operations” in shaping, coercing, and subordinating the world for years. Through the use of organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy it has waged constant war against peer and near-peer competitors like Russia and China indirectly, as well as indirect war against their allies.

Such full-spectrum warfare requires full-spectrum national defense policies.

References:

Merriam-Webster – definitions of war:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dicti…

Gutenberg Project – On War (by General Carl von Clausewitz):
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1946/…

US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) – The U.S. Army in Multi-Domain Operations 2028 (2018):
https://adminpubs.tradoc.army.mil/pam…

Business Insider – How the US Department of Defense coordinates operations around the world (a 2016 snapshot including a map of the various US commands):
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-mi…

Reuters – Attacks on Myanmar telecom towers show evolving tactics in conflict:
https://www.reuters.com/business/medi…

Futures & Concepts Center – The Future Force in Multi-Domain Operations – by LTG Eric Wesley (22 January 2020):
https://youtu.be/RItpEV0enYU

AP – Suicide blast in southern Pakistan kills 3 Chinese, driver:
https://apnews.com/article/explosions…

Govtrack – H.Con.Res. 104 (112th): Expressing the sense of Congress that the people of Baluchistan, currently divided between Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, have the right to self-determination and to their own sovereign country. (2012):
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill…

The National Interest – Free Baluchistan (2011):
https://nationalinterest.org/commenta…

National Endowment for Democracy – Burma [Myanmar] 2021:
https://www.ned.org/region/asia/burma…

Myanmar Now – After a bold attack, PDF fighters consider their next move:
https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/a…

AP – Attacks on Chinese-run factories in Myanmar vex Beijing:
https://apnews.com/article/beijing-ch…

Reuters – Attacks on Myanmar telecom towers show evolving tactics in conflict:
https://www.reuters.com/business/medi…