Author : Rosella Cappella Zielinski
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Release : 2022
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Successful strategies effectively use force, directly or indirectly, to secure and advance broader political objectives. While it is not always necessary to achieve military victory over the adversary to succeed strategically—for example, Henry Kissinger famously noted that the guerrilla wins as long as he does not lose—it is often required. Recognizing the importance of military victory for attainment of strategic goals, belligerents often form “battlefield coalitions,” or groups of officers, troops, and materiel brought together by multiple distinct political communities for the purpose of jointly waging combat in the same operational battlespace. That is, in the hope of increasing their chances of military victory, they deploy their forces side-by-side with those fielded by a partner and the combined formation then works in concert at the operational and tactical levels of war to defeat the adversary in discrete battles.