April 1, 2017 — There is a critical need for new thinking on how the United States can better meet the full spectrum of kinetic and nonkinetic 21st-century security challenges.

The information revolution is enabling individuals and groups to achieve truly disruptive effects. Web-based social networking can mobilize and align the power of group action with ease and speed. This article proposes a more modest solution for the combined arms warfare (CAW) anomalies. It is a complement to the CAW concept that accommodates the behavior of participants in the cyber domain as well as soft power participants from the natural domains called the Combined Effects Power (CEP) construct. The CAW model is not being jettisoned. This proposed CEP concept can serve, like the concept of quantum mechanics for Newtonian anomalies, as a remedy to explain the CAW anomalies.