Decision-making on the Future Battlefield: Keeping Pace

Abstract

The Joint Chiefs of Staff recently stated that "there is more to sustaining a competitive advantage than acquiring hardware, we must gain and sustain an intellectual overmatch." The premise of this intellectual overmatch in a future fight is the ability to think under pressure and immediately translate thought to action, thus deciding rapidly. The dynamic nature of the future battlefield reveals it is no longer enough to presume conventional superiority, and the USMC must refocus training and education at every level to ensure the development of competent, agile, and intuitive decision-makers. Accordingly, this paper explores implications of the future battlefield and recommends the development of new unit-level platforms, simulations, curricula, standards, and evaluation criteria to cultivate the necessary environment for learning to decide quickly consistent with emerging threats.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 05, 2021
Accession Number
AD1178204

Entities

People

  • Stephen J. Shull

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognition
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Human Behavior
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Doctrine
  • Military Education
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Psychology
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Thinking
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warfare
  • Word Processors

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  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design