Speed Versus Accuracy: A Zero Sum Game
Abstract
Accuracy maintains the required credibility for an effective information strategy. Speed provides current, relevant information to inform and influence key populations. The requirement and role of speed and accuracy create a zero sum game in information strategy. With the importance of information in today's irregular warfare environment, an effective information strategy is based on decentralization. Operations planned and conducted and the daily interactions of the units and Soldiers on the ground must send the organization's message. Only then can an information strategy maintain the speed to enable and enhance action and bolster the organization's credibility due to enhanced operational effectiveness. This paper examines the requirement for and the role of speed and accuracy in informing and influencing key audiences. It provides an overview of how the enemy uses information; the enemy's strategy to disrupt U.S. operations; and the application of Boyd's OODA loop in defeating the enemy's strategy. It concludes with a recommendation for an information strategy developed to overcome the speed versus accuracy dilemma and increase operational effectiveness.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 11, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA508311
Entities
People
- Jeffrey L. Scott
Organizations
- United States Army War College