DIME
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The concept of US national power distilled into four letters: DIME D: Diplomacy I: Information M: Military E: Economics
These areas of national power (from the US perspective) are central to Effects-Based Operations, or [EBO], against adversary's vulnerabilities (as defined by US notions of "national power" to target his will and capability to conduct war.
The model closely resembles Michael Mann's four spheres of social power: IEVP (Ideology, Economics, Violence, Politics).
Variants include DIMES, DIMEFIL/MIDLIFE, SLICED FIRM.
[edit] References
- See Small Wars Journal discussions of DIME here, and here
- Robert Steele's SSI monograph Putting "I" Back into DIME
