What Force and Metrics for What End - Characterizing the Future Leadership and Force

Abstract

The challenge of the uncertain future causes many aspects of the military, indeed including the government as a whole, to be re-examined to determine what type of leadership and forces are needed for that uncertain future. Many of the preparations and transformation efforts focus on the systems and equipment that will be used and employed; that is appropriate, up to a point. There is some discussion and analysis done on the teams, social interactions and coordination of the operators of those systems in many venues beyond the Command and Control Research Program (CCRP). This paper will explore several factors which are not regularly placed on the table with the hardware and systems: ethics, spectrum of education, empowerment and accountability, and, capability and coordination of actions; for what objective: the largest common good; what interaction points: forces, locations, and entities which generate limited common good; and, suggested metric: general four-level framework of relative values, melded to the above items.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA463144

Entities

People

  • Russell E. Bryant

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Geography
  • International Relations
  • Law
  • Leadership
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Organizational Structure
  • Public Health
  • United States Special Operations Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control