Memorandum for SECDEF: Restore "Shock" in Strategic Planning

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DOD) needs to re-institutionalize horizon scanning for strategic shock and integrate this perspective into its strategy, plans, and risk assessment. Defense-relevant strategic shocks are disruptive, transformational events for DOD. Though their precise origin and nature are uncertain, strategic shocks often emerge from clear trends. Shocks are often recognized in advance on some level but are nonetheless shocking because they are largely ignored.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 05, 2020
Accession Number
AD1104694

Entities

People

  • John Schaus
  • Nathan Freier
  • Robert Hume

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

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  • Business Administration
  • Civil War
  • Covid-19
  • Defense Planning
  • Department Of Defense
  • Federal Budgets
  • Governments
  • Gray Zone
  • Lessons Learned
  • Medical Personnel
  • National Security
  • Personality
  • Public Health
  • Risk
  • Security
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Systems Analysis and Design