This suggests that in 2025 no action at any level of warfare should be undertaken without regard to its expected influence on the will of the enemy leadership. Due to the human element, it will always be impossible to determine and predict every potential response an adversary will have resulting from a strategic influence. Preparation and training must accomplished to maximize the understanding and correct identification of the contextual elements that may influence the will of the adversary's leadership. Correct prediction will prevent surprise and unnecessary bloodshed. The world of 2025 will require both subtle and sometimes severe influence to direct the adversary leadership's will to harmonize with our desired endstate.
War is a two-way street.
Influence applied to an adversary must be done while protecting the contextual elements that will influence our own nation's leadership. Formlessness We must protect our nation's vulnerabilities by using deception as Sun Tzu suggests to appear distributed and formless to any adversary. The temptation is great but it must be resisted to ensure that technology does not create systems that are easy targets for a motivated adversary. The development of monolithic systems and the creation of force capabilities around them makes aerospace forces vulnerable to the enemy's influence. In the year 2025, our forces must be flexible enough to influence the varied contextual elements of the adversary's leadership or they will be ineffective.