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Dr Alex Ryan is Assistant Professor of Complex Systems at the School of Advanced Military Studies, Command and General Staff College in the United States. He teaches effective thinking, complex systems and design within the Advanced Military Studies Program and the Advanced Operational Art Studies Fellowship. In nine years at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Alex Ryan was the Australian national lead for the TTCP Joint Systems Analysis Action Group on complex adaptive systems for defence, …
Abstract Many who have studied the issue agree that warfare is becoming more and more complex. Yet, while the complexity of war is certainly increasing, our perception of the problem is also coloured by our increasing consciousness of war’s complexity. Coping with this situation has proven difficult, as the long—and still-continuing—learning process witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrates. The Australian Army has risen to this challenge with the release of Adaptive Campaigning and the launch of the …
The contemporary media environment continues to change at an everaccelerating pace, faster than most could have imagined just 10 years ago. This acceleration has significant implications for today’s media outlets and the military. New media is a case in point. It has been described as a ‘combustible mix of 24/7 cable news, call-in radio and television programs, Internet bloggers and online websites, cell phones and iPods’. 1 New media’s meteoric rise and increasing pervasiveness dictate fresh terms for the …
Lieutenant General William B Calwell IV is the Commanding General of the US Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth. Dennis M Murphy is a professor of information operations and information warfare at the US Army War College. He served in a variety of command and staff positions during his 27 years of US Army service. Mr Anton Menning is the media strategist at the US Army Combined Arms Center. He holds a BA from the University of Kansas and an MS from the William Allen White School of Journalism …
Abstract In 1999 General Charles Krulak coined the term ‘strategic corporal’ (i.e., a junior member trained and empowered to make time-critical decisions in response to the dynamic ground fight). In this article, the author examines a similar phenomenon occurring among senior officers, observing that modern technology allows generals to personally engage on the tactical level from remote locations. How the military manages this phenomenon will become a core leadership question in the years ahead. The …
Dr Peter Warren Singer (AB, Princeton University; PhD, Harvard University) is Senior Fellow and director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC. He is the youngest scholar named Senior Fellow in Brookings’s 90-year history. He has worked for Harvard University, the International Peace Academy, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In his personal capacity, Singer served as coordinator of the Obama ‘08 campaign’s defense-policy task force. Singer is the …