Over The Horizon

OTH, multi-domain operations, emerging security environment

Command & Control of ISR in a Contested, Degraded, and Operationally Limited Environment: Ensuring Support to Unit Level Intelligence (Part 2)

December 12, 2018December 9, 2018 Over The Horizon 0 Comments C2, c4isr, CDO, Intel

Fighting in a contested environment will force a change in how the US prioritizes intel requirements. Consolidating & prioritizing at the local level will the new mantra for success and lethality.

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Command & Control of ISR in a Contested, Degraded, and Operationally Limited Environment: Ensuring Support to Unit Level Intelligence (Part 1)

December 10, 2018December 9, 2018 Over The Horizon 1 Comment C2, c4isr, CDO, Intel

The modern operational environment will force a change in operations at all levels, to include C4ISR. You can’t command without control. You can’t control without communications.

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Changing change while it changes: The rise of disruptive military thinking (Part 3 of 3)

December 7, 2018December 2, 2018 Over The Horizon 1 Comment Adaptation, civilian design, complexity, critical thinking, decision making, decisions, Design, domain, human-centric design, IBM, industrial design, innovation, Israel, methodology, military design, military education, military philosophy, multi domain, planning, swarm theory, systemic operational design (SOD)

Militaries need to introduce design education as early as possible; cadets and privates need to experience design.

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Changing change while it changes: The rise of disruptive military thinking (Part 2 of 3)

December 5, 2018December 2, 2018 Over The Horizon 1 Comment Adaptation, Brigadier General Shimon Naveh, civilian design, complexity, critical thinking, decision making, decisions, Design, human-centric design, IBM, innovation, Israeli Defense Force (IDF), methodology, military design, military philosophy, Operation Defensive Shield, planning, systemic operational design (SOD)

Military design is about constantly changing, transforming, challenging, and disrupting.

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Changing change while it changes: The rise of disruptive military thinking (Part 1 of 3)

December 3, 2018December 2, 2018 Over The Horizon 1 Comment Big Data, center of gravity, complexity, critical thinking, decision making, decisions, Design, digital age, garden weeding, innovation, Key Words: IBM, methodology, military design, military philosophy, operational environment, planning

Many of the seemingly successful mechanical planning processes of the last two centuries are now holding us back

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Future Wars: A Look at the Air Force’s Ability in a 21st Century Fight

November 28, 2018December 9, 2018 Over The Horizon 1 Comment acquisition, adversary, deterrence, multi domain, Near Peer

The Air Force is not ready to deter or prevail against a near-peer adversary, to remain competitive in the 21st century fight the service must have a paradigm shift to give maneuverability back to the warfighter.

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Fight Tonight: A Look at the USAF’s Ability to Prevail

November 26, 2018December 9, 2018 Over The Horizon 1 Comment adversary, air force, china, deterrence, multi domain, Near Peer, Russia, stealth, usaf

The Air Force is ready to deter, and if necessary prevail against a growing near-peer adversary willing to disrupt the international order.

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Modernizing C2 of ISR – Part 2: Breaking ISR’s Industrial Age Chains

November 23, 2018December 9, 2018 Over The Horizon 0 Comments aerospace, air and space operations center, air component, air force, airpower, AOC, C2, CAOC, CFACC, Claire Chennault, CMA, collection management authority, collection operations management, collection requirements management, COM, combat cloud, command and control, CRM, data analytics, decision making, Desert Storm, F-22, F-35, Hap Arnold, IC21, indivisibility of ISR, Information Age, intelligence, Intelligence Community in the 21st Century, ISR, ISR Tactical Controller, ITC, Joint Force, MDB, multi domain, multi-domain battle, multi-domain C2, Norman Schwarzkopf, OODA Loop, OTH, over the horizon, professionalization, reconnaissance, sensor, sensor-shooter, surveillance, Thomas DeWitt Milling, United States Air Force, usaf

Theater-level ISR C2 must be modernized to ensure the Joint Force is prepared for a complex future and can achieve multi-domain success.

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Modernizing ISR C2 Part I: Multi-Domain Maneuver as the Foundation

November 21, 2018December 2, 2018 Over The Horizon 1 Comment air force, c4isr, maneuver warfare, multi domain, multi-domain maneuver, multi-domain operations, multidomain c2

This is the first article in a multi-part series focused on modernizing Command and Control (C2) of Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR).