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Note #27. Avoiding Data-Driven Disasters: Tonkin 1964 and Taiwan 2022—

November 12, 2022
ICSL admin
Security, Strategy
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Gulf of Tonkin, 1964 On 4 August 1964, data-driven decisions in an uncertain operational environment falsely assumed a North Vietnamese patrol boat attack on American destroyers in Gulf of Tonkin international waters. See Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s “The Fog of War” video account here, which mentions uncertainties such as weather, equipment limitations, and operator…

Note #23. Net Assessment and JADC2: A Step Toward All-Effects Warfare?

October 7, 2021
Thomas A. Drohan, Ph.D., Brig Gen USAF ret.
Asia-Pacific, Cyber, Eurasia, Strategy
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Net Assessment The purpose of net assessment is to gain an asymmetric advantage over competitors. US goals generally seek technological superiority. The US Office of Net Assessment, in a rare run of leadership continuity (Andy Marshall, 1973-2015), analyzed strategic competitions and recommended offsets against adversary strengths. Some offsets threatened the mutual vulnerability of Mutual Assured…

Paper #38. What “Talk-Fight” Ideologues Understand About Warfare: All-Domain, All-Effects in the Information Environment.

April 19, 2021
Thomas A. Drohan, Ph.D., Brig Gen USAF ret.
Leadership, Security, Strategy
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Prevailing in an operational environment does not matter if one loses in the information environment. Vietnam Workers Party nationalists understood this. Taliban religious fundamentalists understand this. Why do we not, and what to do about it?

Stick & Rudder #4. A Basic US Strategy Toward Russia: more than Deter & Defend

June 4, 2020
Thomas A. Drohan, Ph.D., Brig Gen USAF ret.
Americas, Eurasia, Security, Strategy
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If strategy means anything, it should have definition and purpose. US strategy toward the current Russia regime, and just about any competitor, continues to be described simplistically as deter and defend.