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  creates both morale and discipline problems within those organizations. The
  production of counterfeit currency and attacks on financial institutions help
  to weaken the enemy’s economic stability. Coordination with and support of
  terrorists to attack political and military leaders and commit acts of sabotage
  against key infrastructure (such as ports, airfields, and fuel supplies) add to
  the variety and number of threats that the enemy must address. The State
  and OPFOR leadership also have the ability to promote and support the
  spread of these same kinds of terrorist acts outside the region. However, they
  must carefully consider the political and domestic impact of these actions be-
  fore making the decision to execute them.
  SYSTEMS WARFARE
  1-107. The OPFOR defines a system as a set of different elements so con-
  nected or related as to perform a unique function not performable by the ele-
  ments or components alone. The essential ingredients of a system include the
  components, the synergy among components and other systems, and some
  type of functional boundary separating it from other systems. Therefore, a
  “system of systems” is a set of different systems so connected or related as to
  produce results unachievable by the individual systems alone. The OPFOR
  views the operational environment, the battlefield, the State’s own instru-
  ments of power, and an opponent’s instruments of power as a collection of
  complex, dynamic, and integrated systems composed of subsystems and com-
  ponents.
  1-108. Systems warfare serves as a conceptual and analytical tool to assist in
  the planning, preparation, and execution of warfare. With the systems ap-
  proach, the intent is to identify critical system components and attack them
  in a way that will degrade or destroy the use or importance of the overall system.
  PRINCIPLE
  1-109. The primary principle of systems warfare is the identification and iso-
  lation of the critical subsystems or components that give the opponent the
  capability and cohesion to achieve his aims. The focus is on the disaggrega-
  tion of the system by rendering its subsystems and components ineffective.
  While the aggregation of these subsystems or components is what makes the
  overall system work, the interdependence of these subsystems is also a poten-
  tial vulnerability. Systems warfare has applicability or impact at all three
  levels of warfare.
  APPLICATION AT THE STRATEGIC LEVEL
  1-110. At the strategic level, the instruments of power and their application
  are the focus of analysis. National power is a system of systems in which the
  instruments of national power work together to create a synergistic effect.
  Each instrument of power (diplomatic-political, informational, economic, and
  military) is also a collection of complex and interrelated systems.
  1-111. The State clearly understands how to analyze and locate the critical
  components of its own instruments of power and will aggressively aim to pro-
  tect its own systems from attack or vulnerabilities. It also understands that
  an adversary’s instruments of power are similar to the State’s. Thus, at the