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Note #24. Close the Strategy Gap with AI-assisted Combined Effects.

October 21, 2021
Thomas A. Drohan, Ph.D., Brig Gen USAF ret.
Cyber, Strategy
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The Authoritarian Threat Democracies do not recognize the all-domain, all-effects warfare that authoritarians wage unless there is direct state-sponsored violence. Instead, we wage “when-deterrence-fails” lethal warfare. Authoritarians exploit the blindspot with informatized operations that seize territory, disrupt adversary control, centralize control, keep opponents divided, and set the terms for peace. The strategy is competitive, effective…

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?

Paper #35. What Might Military Operations Learn From Google? In Africa

December 22, 2020
Thomas A. Drohan, Ph.D., Brig Gen USAF ret.
Cyber, Strategy, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Military operations must be prepared to conduct so-called “great power competition” as well as big and small wars just as complex. In all cases, we need to implement superior strategy to defeat clever competitors.

Paper #21. Informatizing Operations: The Other Half of All-Domain Warfare

March 23, 2020
Michael D. Phillips, Col USAF ret. & Thomas A. Drohan, Brig Gen USAF ret.
Cyber, Leadership, Strategy
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Warfare has become all-domain, all-effects, and all-information. This reality is thriving in a comfort zone outside our entrenched concept of a “threshold of armed conflict.”