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MARITIME DOCTRINE OF SRI LANKA
CHAPTER 3
THE SPECTRUM OF CONFLICT
“War is the continuation of politics by other means.”
Carl Von Clausewitz
The spectrum of conflict signifies the full range of situations in which
military forces may be called upon to operate, ranging from stable peace
to full scale warfighting. The spectrum of conflict may be diagrammatically
denoted as follows:
Full Scale
Limited War Warfighting
Regional Conflict
Operations Other Than War (OOTW)
Conflict Other Than War
Military Activities in Peace
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Figure 3.1 – The Spectrum of Conflict
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