"If the concept is actually influenced by systems thinking, there is little evidence of it. The extensive bibliography contains nothing relevant (the hand of John Maynard Keynes’ dead scribblers might well be at play here)." An important joint publication—the Joint Concept for Competing—is filled with both the language and the ideas of complex systems. But it fails to actually apply systems thinking. The new version should rectify that.
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Over the course of a deployment as theater-level rocket artillery liaison in 2016 for Operation Inherent Resolve, Brennan Deveraux fired more than five hundred HIMARS rockets at ISIS targets. He joins THE SPEAR to tell the story of one of them.
Podcast: The Spear – Combat in a Technological War - Modern War Institute
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The Harding Project is a year old and has made great strides toward renewing the Army's professional journals. Now what those journals need is authors like you to write for them. Here's some helpful advice from Leyton Summerlin on how to get started.
Hook, Message, Call to Action: Advice on Journal Article Writing for Dummies—by a Dummy - Modern War Institute
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"By finding an alternative to having to break through prepared Russian defenses, this offensive could fundamentally change Ukraine’s approach to fighting." Ukraine's offensive across the border into Russia's Kursk oblast effectively amounts to guerrilla warfare at the operational level. Here's why.
The Kursk Offensive: How Ukraine’s Operational-Level Guerrilla Warfare Is Bringing Maneuver Back - Modern War Institute
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"Language is also a common subject. Authors skewer 'military English' in essays like 'Animadversions Anent Anfractuose and Obfuscatory Locutions' and 'Polysyllabification' that would resonate with any soldier today." In 1943, the Infantry Journal published a 697-page compendium of essays and other articles, written over decades and collected from US and even foreign military authors. What can we learn about today's professional military discourse from it?
Lessons from the Old Army - Modern War Institute
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"If these capabilities were packaged into a single vehicle light enough to be sling-loaded by a helicopter, detection could occur as far away as twenty kilometers, EW engagement at more than five kilometers, and kinetic engagement within two kilometers." Two air defense artillery officers imagine what a light-maneuverable counter–unmanned aircraft systems platform, optimized to support small units, would look like.
Small Units Need Protection from Drones—But What Capabilities Should a Light, Maneuverable Counter-UAS Platform Include? - Modern War Institute
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"The current R2E approach is stopgap tool to address excess and makes us feel good in the short term, but the dopamine rush only lasts until excess appears again." The Army has too much stuff, and too often in the wrong places. Efforts to deal with it have failed to address the underlying causes. What's needed is a culture change.
The War on Excess: The Army Has an Equipment Management Problem and Needs a Culture Change to Solve It - Modern War Institute
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"The first step is to determine business rules for the right talent—the who and why regarding assignment to serve within the unmanned aircraft system detection and defeat formations and the command post / base defense operations center." How should Army leaders ensure soldiers and units are prepared for the drone-saturated future battlefield, The command sergeant major of First Army Division West shares his thoughts.
Capability and Readiness in the Era of the Drone: How the Army Can Plan, Communicate, and Achieve Training Proficiency - Modern War Institute
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The US military needs to prepare its leaders to embrace innovation. That's why it should bring Hacking for Defense® (H4D) courses to the service academies. Justin Fanelli Tip Myers Caleb Stenholm https://lnkd.in/d8nZkvQP
Want More Innovative US Military Leaders? Bring the Hacking for Defense Course to Service Academies - Modern War Institute
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"The ability for land-based forces to integrate with maritime elements to achieve sea denial is key to the US Indo-Pacific Command campaigning strategy. Every unit west of the international date line is a potential sensor." A Marine battalion and an Army company experimented with the joint reconnaissance-strike complex during a rehearsal in Japan. Here’s what they learned.
The Joint Reconnaissance Strike Complex: Marine and Army Experimentation in the First Island Chain - Modern War Institute
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