Preparing for the Unpredictable: Accident Management in Great Power Competition
This article identifies the potential of international accidents across domains and identifies factors decision makers must consider before/after an accident.
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Decision Maneuver: the Next Revolution in Military Affairs
The next major arena of military competition will likely be information and decision-making, and the U.S. must harness future technology.
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Changing change while it changes: The rise of disruptive military thinking (Part 3 of 3)
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)
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)
Many of the seemingly successful mechanical planning processes of the last two centuries are now holding us back
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Modernizing C2 of ISR – Part 2: Breaking ISR’s Industrial Age Chains
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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Command & Control of Tomorrow’s War: Why Decisive Mission Commanders are Key to Multi-Domain Operations
As tactical-level warfare evolves, the emerging security environment will likely drive a level of chaos and friction that has not happened in recent conflicts. To effectively execute MDO in a contested environment, preparing Mission Commanders to act decisively will be essential.
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Avoiding the Early Bird– Innovation in the US Air Force
“The early bird gets the worm. The early worm… gets eaten” – Norm Augustine With support from the highest levels
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OTH Video: Interview with Lt Gen Jeff “Cobra” Harrigian
At the end of the day it’s about killing and surviving. To do that, we’ve got to go faster and think beyond just air, space, and cyber.
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Lt Gen Deptula Remarks – OTH Speaker Series – Aerospace Power in an Age of Uncertainty
Retired Lt Gen David Deptula shares his thoughts on the future of warfare-in particular, aerospace power in an age of uncertainty.
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FIFTH GENERATION WARFARE: EMERGING NAVAL COMBAT CLOUDS
Peter Layton explores how future warfighting concepts and network/combat cloud design are now interdependent – with the actual platform design of more secondary importance. He notes how, in moving to a fifth-generation force, networks and combat clouds are the fundamental building blocks and we need to get them right.
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Interview with Lt Gen (Ret.) David Deptula: Part 3
In an interview, Lt Gen David Deptula (Ret) shares his perspective on current and future challenges for USAF leaders and joint operations.
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Interview with Lt Gen (Ret.) David Deptula: Part 2
Lt Gen David Deptula (Ret) shares his perspective on the Combat Cloud, ISR, and the need for airmen to serve as joint warfighting commanders.
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OTH Interview of Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret): Part 1
In an interview, Lt Gen David Deptula (Ret) shares his perspective on current and future challenges for the USAF leaders and the Joint Force.
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Drop Zone: OTH Interview with Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret.)
In a candid interview, retired Lt Gen David Deptula, shares his perspective on current and future challenges for USAF leaders and the Joint Force.
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Combat Cloud: A High Tech Solution to a Low Tech Problem
Building a common operating picture from data stored in a cloud environment and creating the illusion of the availability of perfect information creates three large risks: joint forces become more vulnerable to Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) attacks and reflexive control strategies; command, control, and execution become increasingly centralized; and an information-denied environment causes decision paralysis.
By Katrina Schweiker
DROP ZONE: Decision Making
Innovation continues the quest to provide more perfect information and decrease the risk of making an incorrect decision.
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