According to TC 7-100, adaptation is defined as; the ability to learn and adjust behaviors based on learning. Adaptation is intimately linked to one’s operational environment and its variables. Adversaries can approach adaptation from two different perspectives: natural and directed.
Natural adaptation occurs as an actor (nation-state or non-state) acquires or refines its ability to apply its political, economic, military or informational power. Natural adaptation may be advanced through acquisition of technology, key capabilities, or resources (financial and material). Effective organization. Effective use of the information environment or even key regional or global alliances.
Natural adaptation is the way evolution is made if you will. We adapt every day to our politicians passing new laws, increasing and decreasing gas prices, falling and rising of powers and adapting to new enemy tactics and strategies such as the history of Thucydides.
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Sparta was the land power of its time and its hoplite’s (Soldiers) were drilled and trained to perfection. The Athenian’s had the overall maritime power at the time and supported by a walled capital. The Spartan leader warned his king’s men about the overall strength and power of the Athenian’s. However, the loyalty to the Spartan King and his orders the Spartans marched through Attica ravishing and destroying the Athenian estates and farms. The Spartans encamped waiting for the Athenian herald’s for a plan of attack hoping for a short war however, the Athenians decided not to make contact with the Spartan’s and remained behind the capitol wall.
The Spartan’s have learned a new lesson, “the enemy gets a vote.” The enemy decided to stay behind the walls and utilize their strengths that worked against the Spartan’s. This war is an extended history of the operational adaptation of each side as they strove to gain a sustainable advantage over their