The Way of the Gun: Applying Lessons of Ground Combat to Pilot Training

Abstract

Over the past thirty years, ground combatants have experienced tremendous increases in lethality, survivability, and resilience compared to soldiers of old. All of these increases are a direct result of improved understanding of how human beings operate, particularly under the stress of deadly threat. This improved training revolution began in the 1980s with the human performance movement, driven by an Army Research Institute study on enhancing human performance. The results of these studies created a large stir, and had numerous offshoot works in multiple disciplines--self-help books for executives, performance imagery works for athletes, and of particular use to this thesis--the genesis of a new discipline--warrior science.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 29, 2016
Accession Number
AD1044958

Entities

People

  • Andrew N. Wittke

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Brain
  • Cognition
  • Flight Crews
  • Flight Training
  • Instructors
  • Management Training
  • Medical Personnel
  • Motor Skills
  • Pilots
  • Psychology
  • Reaction Time
  • Resource Management
  • Students
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Educational Psychology
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.