【英文】兰德报告：竞争时代的战略优势：定义、动态和含义（121页）

英文研究报告 2023年03月21日 07:30 管理员

This refinement of the concept of strategic advantage has the potential to inform ongoing efforts to continuously review, test and refresh the theory of success and associated evidence base, and assumptions underpinning defence strategy, policy and investment decisions. This includes how to prioritise finite resources for force and capability development or for research and development; as well as how to communicate a shared understanding of strategic competition and advantage across government and to international allies and partners and other audiences (including to deter the UK’s major competitors). Real-world case studies provide important lessons on how the UK can achieve and maintain a position of strategic advantage

Armed with this conceptual understanding of strategic advantage, Chapter 5 offers a more practical discussion of the types of ways in which advantage might be achieved in the real world, and what might be the most prudent strategy for the UK – and for the MOD – in the face of intensifying competition. The historical case studies summarised in Chapter 3 and contained in Annex D describe a wide variety of situations in which a range of actors utilised individual strands of advantage across the PESTLE-M framework. While no nation can fully anticipate which of its levers may be most relevant to future competition, or leverage its full potential with perfect efficiency, governments can focus on increasing their nation’s overall propensity for advantage – effectively, a measure of that nation’s productivity as a strategic competitor.