Military Command and Control

United States Air Force

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Airmen Out-Paced
As it stands now, airmen are being asked to pick up the pieces when communications networks and chains of command break. Mission command could be the means to succeed in the future, but only after the USAF does the hard work now to make organizational changes and define a viable construct to guide their efforts.
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Sep 8, 2023
Wild Blue Yonder
Michael J. Lostumbo

Joint Operations

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Two Vignettes: How Might Combat Operations Be Different Under the Information Joint Function?
RAND researcher Christopher Paul employs storytelling to illustrate two distinct approaches to Joint Combat Operations. While both vignettes result in the expulsion of adversary forces and the restoration of territorial integrity, they take different approaches to kinetic and informational power.
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Oct 8, 2020
Mad Scientist Laboratory Blog
Christopher Paul
Information Operations

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Is It Time to Abandon the Term Information Operations?
Operations in the information environment will be a critical part of future joint force operations and should be baked in to those operations as a fully valued tool in commanders' combined arms toolboxes. Reaching that goal will require greater acceptance and understanding of information across the joint force, new structures for information forces, and the evolution of how operations in the information environment are handled within the staff.
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Mar 13, 2019
Strategy Bridge
Christopher Paul
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Improving the Effectiveness of Air Force Squadron Commanders
U.S. Air Force commanders around the world understand their responsibilities. But they believe that many unrecognized duties interfere with mission performance. They are generally prepared by professional education and career progression to fulfill their responsibilities, but they could use more instruction on how to command.
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May 23, 2018
Homeland Security Today
John A. Ausink, Miriam Matthews
China

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Xi in Command: Downsizing and Reorganizing the People's Liberation Army
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently announced that China would reduce the number of troops in its army by 300,000. But that is only a first step in a more ambitious reform and reorganization plan.
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Sep 14, 2015
Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS
Michael S. Chase
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Changes From Command Transfer
Published commentary by RAND staff: Changes From Command Transfer, in Korea Times.
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Dec 6, 2006
Korea Times
Bruce W. Bennett @bwbennett

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

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Military Command and Control

Airmen Out-Paced

Two Vignettes: How Might Combat Operations Be Different Under the Information Joint Function?

Is It Time to Abandon the Term Information Operations?

Improving the Effectiveness of Air Force Squadron Commanders

Xi in Command: Downsizing and Reorganizing the People's Liberation Army

Changes From Command Transfer

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