Paper #52. Beyond Doctrinal Plug-Ins: Integrate IO to Win Complex Wars
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August 15, 2022
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ICSL admin
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Security, Strategy
Winning complex wars requires setting more than military end states. Information-heavy complex problems (ICP’s) in hyper-connected environments can persist for generations (Ehlers and Blannin, Campaigning for Complex Problems). These problem sets require enduring social efforts and information-led operations such as narrative warfare. As in Ukraine and Taiwan, the perpetual fight is to get an adversary to…
Stick & Rudder #5. A Basic Strategy Toward China: Rules-based Competition that Cooperates & Confronts
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June 26, 2020
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Thomas A. Drohan, Ph.D., Brig Gen USAF ret.
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Asia-Pacific, Commercial, Security, Strategy
Competing effectively with the authoritarian regime in Beijing requires a superior blend of cooperation and confrontation.
Note #1. Theoretical Thinking is Applied Critical Thinking
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April 16, 2019
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Thomas A. Drohan, Ph.D., Brig Gen USAF ret.
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Leadership, Strategy
Winning complex competition and warfare requires both theoretical and applied thinking.
Paper #1. Tactics of Strategy and Strategy of Tactics: Winning and Losing in Complex Competition and Warfare
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April 15, 2019
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Thomas A. Drohan, Brig Gen USAF ret.
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Strategy
Smart competitors are using tactics of strategy to achieve broader-than-military objectives, while US policies produce strategies of tactics that deploy forces for ambiguous purposes.