Dominating Duffer's Domain: Lessons for the U.S. Army Information Operations Practitioner

Abstract

This report is written in the style and tradition of an important military teaching text: The Defence of Duffers Drift. Written by Major General Sir Ernest Swinton in 1904 based on his experience as a field-grade officer during the Boer War, Duffer's Drift became a military classic over the course of the following century because it so effectively taught principles of tactical defense. In Swinton's text, the fictional narrator, Lieutenant Backsight Foresight, experiences a series of six dreams; in each, he is charged with the same mission (the defense of Duffer's Drift), and in each (save the last) he fails spectacularly, though in new and different ways, having learned from each of the previous failures until he is finally, before awakening, successful.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1085086

Entities

People

  • Christopher Edward Paul
  • William M. Marcellino

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Force Protection
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Information Operations
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Operations Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychological Operations
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.