Web-Shared Confrontation and Collaboration Analysis for CMOs
Abstract
This paper assesses the general importance for the military of implementing net-centric approaches and their special relevance for Civil-Military Operations (CMO). Achieving effective decentralized C2 (DC2) has proved more elusive for the military than for its agile antagonists. While DC2 is a feature of U.S. Marine operations in Afghanistan, widespread adoption of Net Centric Operations as championed in the 2009 C2 Strategic Plan has been impeded by organizational structures and practices. Despite the ubiquity of mission command as a doctrinal principle, command cultures locally derail DC2. Emerging web-enabled technologies can facilitate the shift to "edgelike" C2 by enabling new patterns of interaction and information exchange. However, major cultural and policy changes are required to permit these technologies to deliver DC2. These challenges are greater in Civil-Military Operations where achieving shared situational awareness and self-synchronization must cross semi-permeable information boundaries. More crucial still, collective C2 must not be achieved at the cost of unsupportable knowledge burdens imposed upon networked parties. This paper proposes that participants in Civil-Military Operations use a managed social network to share confrontation/collaboration analyses. The latter would be supported by existing software tools and represent knowledge-efficient briefings about the strategic conversations in which the corresponding party is engaged. This fundamentally reorients and updates earlier suggestions for a centralized C2 system for "winning hearts and minds." The presentation includes briefing charts.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA546902
Entities
People
- Jim Bryant
Organizations
- Sheffield Hallam University