Post-COVID Transformation: DOD Goes into the Matrix

Abstract

These are complex, turbulent, and uncertain times to be sure. The Department of Defense (DOD) is at an important inflection point. COVID-19 has irrevocably altered the dynamics of international security and reshaped DODs decision-making landscape. As a result, DOD will have to adapt to significantly different strategic circumstances post-COVID than those assumed operative in the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS18). We recommend that DOD recognize this to be true, seize the initiative, create opportunity from crisis, and recraft defense strategy to re-emerge from COVID as a stronger, more hypercompetitive institution.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 29, 2020
Accession Number
AD1104698

Entities

People

  • Al Lord
  • John Schaus
  • Nathan Freier
  • Robert Hume

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Covid-19
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environment
  • Gray Zone
  • Hard Copy
  • Human Behavior
  • International Organizations
  • International Security
  • Leadership
  • Military Capabilities
  • Military Forces (Foreign)
  • Motivation
  • National Security
  • Personality
  • Security
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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  • Educational Psychology
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Strategic Security Studies