Transforming How We Fight—A Conceptual Approach

IF 0.3 Q4 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Christopher D. Kolenda
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Abstract : This essay questions the wisdom of the current, almost exclusive focus on technology in discussions of transformation, arguing that it risks dooming US Armed Forces to expensive irrelevance and inconsequential lethality. We must explore intellectual and cultural components in determining how we will fight in the future, rather than merely concentrating on the tools we will use to fight. This essay will approach some cultural and intellectual components by proposing at set of warfighting tenets (decentralization, complexity, resilience, and tempo) that synthesize the enduring nature of war with contemporary technological realities. The key aspects of the enduring nature of war the essay addresses are: information is "essentially dispersed, war is Chaotic, combatants in war are complex adaptive systems, war is a nonlinear phenomenon, and war is uncertain True transformation, the essay concludes, will be measured not by the speed of our microchips, but by the effectiveness of our soldiers, leaders, and organizations in the next war.
改变我们的战斗方式——一种概念方法
摘要:本文质疑当前在讨论转型时几乎只关注技术的智慧,认为它有可能使美国武装部队陷入代价高昂的无关紧要和无关紧要的杀伤力。我们必须探索智力和文化方面的因素,以决定我们未来将如何作战,而不是仅仅关注我们将用于作战的工具。本文将通过提出一套战争原则(去中心化、复杂性、弹性和节奏),将战争的持久性与当代技术现实相结合,来探讨一些文化和智力因素。文章指出,战争持久本质的关键方面是:信息“本质上是分散的,战争是混乱的,战争中的战斗人员是复杂的适应系统,战争是非线性现象,战争是不确定的。”文章总结说,真正的转变将不是由我们的微芯片的速度来衡量的,而是由我们的士兵、领导人和组织在下一场战争中的有效性来衡量的。
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