Download or read book Report of the Defense Science Board 1998 Summer Study Task Force on Joint Operations Superiority in the 21st Century Volume 1 Integrating Capabilities Underwriting Joint Vision 2010 and Beyond written by Defense science board washington dc and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1998 Defense Science Board (DSB) Summer Study continues a series of DSB studies that have examined key challenges facing America's military in the coming decade. Taken together, these studies address a wide range of threats and challenges facing the United States. Such threats include familiar conventional threats as well as less traditional threats. This report examines capabilities and technologies to underwrite the operational concepts and goals of Joint Vision 2010 and beyond. Its central theme is that the cornerstone of a highly effective, next- generation force is early and continuous combat effectiveness with dominant force. Such a capability is necessary for combat success with the fewest casualties, at the lowest cost, and in the shortest time. This report describes a set of critical operational challenges and offers the Department recommendations associated with achieving this capability. This Summer Study and the companion 1998 study, Logistics Transformation, have added emphasis to the close connection between effective, next-generation military operations and focused logistics. To have early and continuous combat effectiveness with dominant force, it is essential to have more agile and deployable forces and to be more responsive in theater. It also calls for a different logistics system --one with increased speed, reliability, and precision -- that minimizes stockpiles in the field relying on highly responsive lift.
Download or read book Defense Science Board 1998 Summer Study Joint Operations Superiority in the 21st Century Integrating Capabilities Underwriting Joint Vision 2010 and Beyond Volume 2 Supporting Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of the 1998 Summer Study report provided a framework for integrating capabilities underwriting Joint Vision 2010. The task force identified early and continuous application of decisive combat effects as the central theme of the study, and identified eight supporting and interlocking operational challenges. These supporting challenges include assured knowledge superiority, responsive global targeting, exploitation of the littoral battlespace, inter- and intra-theater mobility, coalition warfare, force and infrastructure protection, theater ballistic and cruise missile defense, and urban operations. In each of these areas, Volume I describes selected enablers essential to achieving these operational challenges. Volume II, Supporting Reports, contains material that further elaborates on the subjects highlighted in Volume I. Part 1, Task Force White Papers, begins by exploring the topic of early and continuous combat effectiveness in further detail by describing additional enablers that are important elements of this overall capability. Some of the weapons systems discussed include ballistic missile launched precision weapons, space-based lasers, small precision bombs, loiter weapons, kinetic energy weapons, and light armored vehicles. Other White Papers provide descriptions of additional enablers for responsive global targeting, exploiting the littoral battlespace, robotic adjuncts for dismounted troops, and urban operations. Part 2 of this volume provides summaries of related reports describing operational concepts promoted by the military Services that are related to the overall themes of Joint Vision 2010, an overview of recommendations from prior Defense Science Board studies that support the findings of the 1998 Summer Study task force, and other supporting analyses conducted by RAND.
Download or read book Joint Operations Superiority in the 21st Century written by John Matsumura and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This documented briefing describes RAND research that supported the 1998 Defense Science Board (DSB) Summer Study on Joint Operations Superiority in the 21st Century: Integrating Capabilities Underwriting Joint Vision 2010. RAND supported the DSB through both exploratory analysis and high-resolution simulation-based analysis; this document only covers the high-resolution work, notably simulation experiments to help explore and assess Joint operational concepts. It builds on related work done by the authors for the DSB effort, Tactics and Technology for 21st Century Military Superiority (DB-198-A). The current effort draws on outcomes of other DSB studies, discussions with warfighters, and interactions with DSB members, to define a range of different Joint operational concepts that could be applied to a future (2010-2015) notional, high-intensity, quick-reaction scenario. The strengths and weaknesses of
Download or read book Joint Operations Superiority in the 21st Century Analytic Support to the 1998 Defense Science Board written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the defense community has come to endorse "jointness" in military operations, views differ greatly on what operations should look like in the future. Joint Vision (JV) 2010 provides basic ideas on how people and technologies might best be used to shape Joint warfare in the future, but it is a vision document that is intended to serve as a conceptual template, not a blueprint. The Defense Science Board (DSB) was asked to help move things forward by focusing "on how new capabilities, operational concepts, and different force characteristics can be developed and integrated to underwrite Joint Vision 2010." This report describes part of RAND's analytical support of the DSB summer study, notably simulation experiments to help explore and assess Joint operational concepts. It builds on related work done by the authors for a previous DSB effort, Tactics and Technology for 21st Century Military Superiority In this year's effort, we not only drew on outcomes of such previous DSB studies, but also included new discussions with warfighters and planners in the Joint warfare community, and interactions with DSB members, to define a range of operational concepts for the future. The strengths and weaknesses of these concepts were explored using man-in-the-loop, high-resolution, stochastic constructive simulation in the context of a single basic scenario with a number of variations. Our intention in this detailed work was to; (1) provide insights and inputs for a broader, exploratory RAND analysis for the DSB, (2) increase dialogue among conceptualizers, users, and developers, and (3) suggest ideas that would indeed help the DSB take IV 2010 to the next step. An additional objective made clear by the summer study's leadership from the outset was to illustrate the kinds of analysis needed to assess new concepts.
Download or read book Analytical Methods for Studies and Experiments on Transforming the Force written by Paul K. Davis and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense is motivated by both opportunities and necessity to transform the force over the years ahead by exploiting modern technology and operational concepts associated with the revolution in military affairs, and by making related organizational changes. This documented briefing provides a background review describing a broad transformation strategy, then discusses and illustrates how analysis supported by models and simulations (including gaming) can supplement and guide empirical work such as joint experiments. The approach is illustrated for the problem of halting an invading army, with long-range precision fires playing a major role. A great deal of insight about the general problem can be obtained from analysis at different levels of resolution with a family of models. This process, in turn, identifies important kinds of information that can be obtained only from empirical work such as joint field experiments. The recommended
Download or read book Metrics for the Quadrennial Defense Review s Operational Goals written by Charles T. Kelley and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a first cut at identifying metrics for evaluating, advancing, and monitoring progress toward attaining the six operational goals highlighted in the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review.
Download or read book Naval Mine Warfare written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-09-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sea mines have been important in naval warfare throughout history and continue to be so today. They have caused major damage to naval forces, slowed or stopped naval actions and commercial shipping, and forced the alteration of strategic and tactical plans. The threat posed by sea mines continues, and is increasing, in today's world of inexpensive advanced electronics, nanotechnology, and multiple potential enemies, some of which are difficult to identify. This report assesses the Department of the Navy's capabilities for conducting naval mining and countermining sea operations.
Download or read book Portfolio Analysis Methods for Assessing Capability Options written by Paul K. Davis and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analytical framework and methodology for capability-area reviews is described, along with new tools to support capabilities analysis and strategic-level defense planning in the Defense Department and the Services. BCOT generates and screens preliminary options, and the Portfolio-Analysis Tool (PAT) is used to evaluate options that pass screening. The concepts are illustrated with applications to Global Strike and Ballistic Missile Defense. Recommendations are made for further defense-planning research.
Download or read book Mastering the Ultimate High Ground Next Steps in the Military Uses of Space written by Benjamin S. Lambeth and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 1999-04-19 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the military space challenges facing the Air Force and the nation in light of the findings and recommendations of the Space Commission. The author reviews the Air Force?'s involvement in space since its creation as an independent service in 1947; examines the circumstances that occasioned the commission?'s creation and the conceptual and organizational roadblocks that have impeded a more rapid growth of U.S. military space capability; and enumerates the challenges facing the Air Force with respect to space.
Download or read book The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report written by Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.
Download or read book Mission Command in the 21st Century written by Nathan K. Finney and published by . This book was released on 2016-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Challenges New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking written by Stuart E. Johnson and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2003-03-31 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is still easy to underestimate how much the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War?--and then the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001?--transformed the task of American foreign and defense policymaking. In place of predictability (if a sometimes terrifying predictability), the world is now very unpredictable. In place of a single overriding threat and benchmark by which all else could be measured, a number of possible threats have arisen, not all of them states. In place of force-on-force engagements, U.S. defense planners have to assume "asymmetric" threats?--ways not to defeat U.S. power but to render it irrelevant. This book frames the challenges for defense policy that the transformed world engenders, and it sketches new tools for dealing with those challenges?--from new techniques in modeling and gaming, to planning based on capabilities rather than threats, to personnel planning and making use of "best practices" from the private sector.
Download or read book Economic Security Neglected Dimension of National Security written by National Defense University (U S ) and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 24-25, 2010, the National Defense University held a conference titled “Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security?” to explore the economic element of national power. This special collection of selected papers from the conference represents the view of several keynote speakers and participants in six panel discussions. It explores the complexity surrounding this subject and examines the major elements that, interacting as a system, define the economic component of national security.
Download or read book Thinking about Deterrence written by Air Univeristy Press and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With many scholars and analysts questioning the relevance of deterrence as a valid strategic concept, this volume moves beyond Cold War nuclear deterrence to show the many ways in which deterrence is applicable to contemporary security. It examines the possibility of applying deterrence theory and practice to space, to cyberspace, and against non-state actors. It also examines the role of nuclear deterrence in the twenty-first century and reaches surprising conclusions.
Download or read book The Future of Air Power in the Aftermath of the Gulf War written by Robert L. Pfaltzgraff and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reflects the proceedings of a 1991 conference on "The United States Air Force: Aerospace Challenges and Missions in the 1990s," sponsored by the USAF and Tufts University. The 20 contributors comment on the pivotal role of airpower in the war with Iraq and address issues and choices facing the USAF, such as the factors that are reshaping strategies and missions, the future role and structure of airpower as an element of US power projection, and the aerospace industry's views on what the Air Force of the future will set as its acquisition priorities and strategies. The authors agree that aerospace forces will be an essential and formidable tool in US security policies into the next century. The contributors include academics, high-level military leaders, government officials, journalists, and top executives from aerospace and defense contractors.
Download or read book So Many So Much So Far So Fast written by James K. Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Select Committee on U S National Security and Military Commercial Concerns with the People s Republic of China written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transmittal letter.
