Swarming Intelligence: Concept to Reality
Two decades of swarming optimization research lay the groundwork for the development of physical swarming techniques.
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***OTH Anniversary*** Multi-Domain Thinking and the Human Domain
Today’s editor’s pick was chosen by Julie Janson. In it, Tom Flounders makes a compelling argument that the Human Domain is the decisive domain.
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***OTH Anniversary*** Over the Horizon: The Multi-Domain Operational Strategist (MDOS)
As part of the OTH anniversary series, this article, by Dr. Jeffrey Reilly, forms a foundation for discussing multi-domain operations.
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***OTH Anniversary***Multi-Domain Strategic Thinking: What Problem Are We Trying to Solve?
Editor’s Note: As part of our anniversary celebration series, below we present the top read article of 2017. For those
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Mission Command in Multi-Domain Operations
This article on Mission Command looks at how contested domains will force subordinate leaders to make timely decisions that either seize or forfeit the initiative.
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Bridge Builders to Make Multi-Domain Operations Work
To achieve dominance in the networked age, the U.S. Air Force must build organizational expertise that can foster a culture that lives and breathes multi-domain integration.
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The Case for Dispersed Basing
There are compelling reasons for implementing dispersed basing, including survivability and the capacity to execute multi-domain operations. There are also significant challenges to overcome, including building partnerships; sustainment; restructuring personnel and training requirements; ensuring command, control, communications, and computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) connectivity; and base defense.
By Aaron Sick
Multi-Domain Thinking and the Human Domain
Multi-Domain thinking requires an understanding of the nature of domains and how they interact with each other, while ultimately focusing on affecting participants in order to achieve a lasting outcome understood in the human domain.
By Tom Flounders
Putting the Advantage of Mass Back into Airpower: RPA Utility Beyond the COIN Fight
The USAF and broader DOD must seriously examine the potential role for RPAs beyond the permissive battle-spaces they currently excel in. They have far more to offer than surveillance and precision strikes against undefended, soft targets.
By Mark Nexon
DROP ZONE: Joint Command and Control
Our Services need to mature and lead the drive to Jointness, both across the DOD and the complex American alliance system
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Multi-Domain Strategic Thinking: What Problem Are We Trying to Solve?
Multi-domain strategy therefore requires patterns of thought characterized by focus on affecting human cognition, distilling clarity from complex environments, and planning and executing operations within the uncertainty of future conflict.
By Wilford Garvin
Multi-Domain Operations and Strategy in the American Revolution
George Washington’s objective was achieving victory in the human domain, and it proved to be the decisive factor for strategic victory.
By Tom Flounders
The Problem with “Airpower”
The United States Air Force’s definition of airpower is merely a description of all Air Force activities and is incorrect.
By Tom Flounders
Winning Tomorrow’s War Today: A Cyber Revolution in Personnel Management
Cyberspace is the key terrain of the present RMA because it connects the domains together, creating an integrated layer of joint-force effectiveness
By Brian Viola, Erica L. Fountain, and Michael C. Williams
Building an Effective Cyber Force
An important lesson airpower’s evolution of thought regarding who is fit to fly aircraft can be applied to the cyberspace operations career field: the uniformed cyberspace operator does not necessarily have to be a computational genius.
By Katrina Schweiker
Tactics of Strategy and Strategy of Tactics
By: Tom Drohan Approximate Reading Time: 12 minutes Excerpt: Smart competitors are using tactics of strategy to achieve broader-than-military objectives,
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Vulnerabilities of Multi-Domain Command and Control (Part 1)
The concept of assured communications enabling an AOC’s continual SA during a peer fight might not be as easy as it sounds.
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Quanta of Competition: Quantum Mechanics, Multi-Domain Battle, and the Gray Zone (Part II)
The principles of quantum physics drive a deeper understanding of conflict through analysis of interactions of the elements of competition.
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Cross-Domain Network Engagement: Partnering, Engaging and Countering Activities for Human-Machine Networks
In the future, advanced human-machine collaborative networks will engage friendly, neutral and enemy networks across a spectrum of conflict.
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Innovative Space Solutions
Integrating low cost near-space balloon technology with cyber, space, air, maritime, and land forces will operationalize near-space and allow the US to retain its asymmetric advantage over future adversaries.
By Brent Cantrell