Paper # 56. Hierarchy of Effort: Reforming Tactics, Operations, and Strategy for Advantage
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March 13, 2023
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ICSL admin
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Asia-Pacific, Eurasia, Security, Strategy
A hierarchy of effort is essential to achieving meaningful advantage in the information environment (IE). The IE’s diverse contexts are multi-domain and all-effects. Three reforms can improve tactics, operations, and strategy against human and AI competitors: Align the ends of desired cause-and-effect relationships Note: the basic strategy process consists of interactive ends (the why—goals), ways…
Paper #38. What “Talk-Fight” Ideologues Understand About Warfare: All-Domain, All-Effects in the Information Environment.
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April 19, 2021
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Thomas A. Drohan, Ph.D., Brig Gen USAF ret.
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Leadership, Security, Strategy
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?