Transformation: The Warfighter's Perspective

Abstract

For people who place themselves in harm's way, it is easy to recognize a "transformational" capability. If you are going to fly a combat sortie into Country X, you analyze everything this adversary can throw at you and assess whether you can/will survive. If he has a lethal capability, like an SA-20, you have to ask, "What system (capability) do I need in order to survive and be combat effective?" If the answers aren't satisfactory from a system perspective for either survival or combat effectiveness, you can then assess your concept of operations to see if there is any way you can increase your odds or effectiveness. If it still looks bad, you start checking for a sinus block or a maintenance nondelivery, or begin the process of groveling to your commander to cancel the mission because failure is imminent!

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA525653

Entities

People

  • Kurt Dittmer

Organizations

  • United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Aircrafts
  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Defense Systems
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Electronically Scanned Array
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Guided Missiles
  • High Energy Lasers
  • Nato
  • Precision-Guided Munitions
  • Standoff Missiles
  • Tactical High-Energy Lasers
  • United States
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Business

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.