Download or read book Rapid Decisive Operations written by Antulio J. Echevarria (II) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological innovation plays a paradoxical role in military transformation. With each problem it solves, technological innovation tends to introduce new challenges or complications. Operational concepts can partly reconcile these tensions by finding the optimal balance between technological strengths and weaknesses. In so doing, they perform two vital functions (integrating and stimulating) for military transformation ..."--Page v.
Download or read book Rapid Decisive Operations A Flawed Concept written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines serious weaknesses with U.S. Joint Forces Command's Rapid Decisive Operations (RDO) concept that, unless modified, will adversely affect its chances for successful application. Overall, RDO provides a deceptively simple, single correct answer to the complex issue of responding to small-scale contingencies. That single correct answer is: the employment of physical coercion, through integrated joint tactical actions, by a standing joint headquarters to rapidly achieve decisive outcomes. In addition to a flawed overall notion, the basic elements of RDO are faulty. This paper focuses on the mismatch between the key elements of RDO: coercion, rapidity, and decisiveness. It will show that military outcomes are unlikely to be rapid or decisive, even when coerced. The characteristics of military operations, combined with the complexities of social and human behavior, make the nature of war too complicated to support achieving rapid results. In addition, military success on the battlefield is not sufficient for ultimate victory. Military operations can only bring the nation to a point short of victory. At that point, the military must have created the conditions that allow the other elements of power to finish the job.
Download or read book Rapid Decisive Operations written by David R. Hogg and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the concept of Rapid Decisive Operations (RDO) and seeks to answer the question of whether or not Rapid Decisive Operations is an achievable concept for the establishment of future Joint Warfighting Doctrine. This study starts with a detailed look at what Rapid Decisive Operations is, what it hopes to accomplish, and what important assumptions are being made in developing this concept. The viability of the Rapid Decisive Operations concept will be based on the criteria of acceptability, feasibility, suitability and risk. This paper will show that Rapid Decisive Operations is the beginning of a new Joint doctrine/concept of warfighting that has the potential of developing a Joint team with a shared training, education and military culture. A doctrine/concept that should embed Jointness within all of the Services as the United States continues to transform its military forces to meet future threats. But, much like the search for the elusive Holy Grail, Rapid Decisive Operations is an ideal that nations have searched for since the early days of warfare: A way to end a conflict with one decisive blow. Unfortunately, modern war is much more complicated. Just winning battles will not win wars.
Download or read book Rapid Decisive Operations written by David R. Hogg and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the concept of Rapid Decisive Operations (RDO) and seeks to answer the question of whether or not Rapid Decisive Operations is an achievable concept for the establishment of future Joint Warfighting Doctrine. This study starts with a detailed look at what Rapid Decisive Operations is, what it hopes to accomplish, and what important assumptions are being made in developing this concept. The viability of the Rapid Decisive Operations concept will be based on the criteria of acceptability, feasibility, suitability and risk. This paper will show that Rapid Decisive Operations is the beginning of a new Joint doctrine/concept of warfighting that has the potential of developing a Joint team with a shared training, education and military culture. A doctrine/concept that should embed Jointness within all of the Services as the United States continues to transform its military forces to meet future threats. But, much like the search for the elusive Holy Grail, Rapid Decisive Operations is an ideal that nations have searched for since the early days of warfare: A way to end a conflict with one decisive blow. Unfortunately, modern war is much more complicated. Just winning battles will not win wars.
Download or read book Rapid Decisive Operations written by Antulio J. Echevarria Ii and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most experts agree that no genuine military transformation or revolution will occur without a corresponding change in operational concepts. Merely replacing old equipment with new is not enough. Militaries must also develop new ways to link tactical actions to strategic ends. For this reason Rapid Decisive Operations (RDO), an emerging concept currently under development by the Joint Futures Lab (J9) of Joint Forces Command, is particularly important for the transformation of U.S. military forces today. An innovative and viable concept will not only stimulate the development of new technologies; it will also help balance the advantages and disadvantages that the introduction of such technologies always entails. On the other hand, a flawed concept will only lead to frustration in training and disappointment in combat as results fail to match expectations.
Download or read book Warfighting written by Department of the Navy and published by Vigeo Press. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manual describes the general strategy for the U.S. Marines but it is beneficial for not only every Marine to read but concepts on leadership can be gathered to lead a business to a family. If you want to see what make Marines so effective this book is a good place to start.
Download or read book Rapid Decisive Operations written by James L. Boling and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joint Forces Command has proposed "Rapid Decisive Operations" as an operational concept for future warfare. The paper examines Rapid Decisive Operations from theoretical and the strategic perspectives within the context of conventional, state-to-state warfare. The Joint Forces Command's concept "Whitepaper" includes ambiguous conflicting statements concerning the employment of Rapid Decisive Operations within in a coercive strategy focused on influencing adversary leadership decision-making. However, such decision-making is unpredictable due to psychological factors and the actions of chance, friction, human nature, passion, uncertainty, and politics; especially within the interactive nature of warfare. General systems and chaos theory support the unpredictability of war. Although Rapid Decisive Operations embraces these modern systems concepts, this is a self-contradictory position since these theories establish the impossibility of predictability within such systems. The paper concludes that Rapid Decisive Operations is a fundamentally flawed operational concept. The White paper's description of the concept fails to present a balanced, intellectually honest, critical assessment. Rapid Decisive Operations does not appear to be adequately grounded in operational realities and the critical enabler of the Operational Net Assessment adopts a self contradictory position regarding systems theory versus predictability which invalidates its promise to provide the foreknowledge necessary to support the concept. Rapid Decisive Operations is divorced from strategic context, which ignores political factors that could reduce its speed and operational advantages. Despite these flaws, Rapid Decisive Operations is still a worthy candidate operational concept, provided it is redesigned to reconcile its internal contradictions and establish solid theoretical underpinnings
Download or read book The Evolution of Operational Art written by G. S. Isserson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rapid Decisive Operations written by Antulio Joseph Echevarria and published by Strategic Studies Institute. This book was released on 2001 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological innovation plays a paradoxical role in military transformation. With each problem it solves, technological innovation tends to introduce new challenges or complications. Operational concepts can partly reconcile these tensions by finding the optimal balance between technological strengths and weaknesses. In so doing, they perform two vital functions (integrating and stimulating) for military transformation ..."--Page v.
Download or read book Rapid Decisive Operations RDO written by Brian P. Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does Rapid Decisive Operations (RDO) represent a revolutionary approach that differs from the way the United States has executed other small scale contingencies in the past? Does it offer value-added worth investment as the new Joint Doctrinal Concept to implement Joint Vision 2020? This document used two small scale contingencies, Operation Just Cause (Panama) and Operation Allied Force (Kosovo), to answer these two questions. Each operation was analyzed using three criteria: geo-strategic factors, friendly and enemy capabilities and limitations, and application of the four elements of national power (diplomatic, informational, military, and economic - DIME). The outcomes of these case studies were evaluated against the outcomes desired by successful RDO. The conclusions are that RDO is a useful concept for experimentation of future joint concepts but not the tool to fully operationalize JV 2020. The strength of RDO lies not in applying the complete concept to only high-end' small scale contingencies, but to extract many of the RDO sub-component concepts to full spectrum joint operations.
Download or read book Rapid Decisive Operations RDO written by Brian P. Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does Rapid Decisive Operations (RDO) represent a revolutionary approach that differs from the way the United States has executed other small scale contingencies in the past? Does it offer value-added worth investment as the new Joint Doctrinal Concept to implement Joint Vision 2020? This document used two small scale contingencies, Operation Just Cause (Panama) and Operation Allied Force (Kosovo), to answer these two questions. Each operation was analyzed using three criteria: geo-strategic factors, friendly and enemy capabilities and limitations, and application of the four elements of national power (diplomatic, informational, military, and economic - DIME). The outcomes of these case studies were evaluated against the outcomes desired by successful RDO. The conclusions are that RDO is a useful concept for experimentation of future joint concepts but not the tool to fully operationalize JV 2020. The strength of RDO lies not in applying the complete concept to only high-end' small scale contingencies, but to extract many of the RDO sub-component concepts to full spectrum joint operations.
Download or read book Rapid Decisive Operations written by James L. Boling and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joint Forces Command has proposed "Rapid Decisive Operations" as an operational concept for future warfare. The paper examines Rapid Decisive Operations from theoretical and the strategic perspectives within the context of conventional, state-to-state warfare. The Joint Forces Command's concept "Whitepaper" includes ambiguous conflicting statements concerning the employment of Rapid Decisive Operations within in a coercive strategy focused on influencing adversary leadership decision-making. However, such decision-making is unpredictable due to psychological factors and the actions of chance, friction, human nature, passion, uncertainty, and politics; especially within the interactive nature of warfare. General systems and chaos theory support the unpredictability of war. Although Rapid Decisive Operations embraces these modern systems concepts, this is a self-contradictory position since these theories establish the impossibility of predictability within such systems. The paper concludes that Rapid Decisive Operations is a fundamentally flawed operational concept. The White paper's description of the concept fails to present a balanced, intellectually honest, critical assessment. Rapid Decisive Operations does not appear to be adequately grounded in operational realities and the critical enabler of the Operational Net Assessment adopts a self contradictory position regarding systems theory versus predictability which invalidates its promise to provide the foreknowledge necessary to support the concept. Rapid Decisive Operations is divorced from strategic context, which ignores political factors that could reduce its speed and operational advantages. Despite these flaws, Rapid Decisive Operations is still a worthy candidate operational concept, provided it is redesigned to reconcile its internal contradictions and establish solid theoretical underpinnings.
Download or read book Rapid Decisive Or Effective The Applicability of Rapid Decision Operations in the Enforcement of the Bush Doctrine written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid Decisive Operations has emerged as the primary Joint Warfighting Concept for the Future Force. It anticipates-as its name suggests-leveraging American technological advantages to quickly and utterly overwhelm an opponent. Yet the theory has its roots in the mid-1990s concept of "Shock and Awe," as popularized by Harlan Ullman. This monograph then questions whether a pre-9/11 concept can fulfill the requirements of what is generally known as the "Bush Doctrine," the commitment to preemptive war against terrorists and states which sponsor or facilitate them. The monograph first defines the Bush Doctrine, using various Presidential speeches and the National Security Strategy. The Doctrine can be simplified as a commitment to preemptive war against terrorists groups, weak states that facilitate terrorist groups, and rogue states that sponsor terrorist groups. The central chapter of the monograph then defines Rapid Decisive Operations, highlighting its commitment to using asymmetrical effects in a rapid tempo to produce "cybershock," or the inability to react to American operations and demands. The fourth chapter then uses these four features of Rapid Decisive Operations and examines their utility against each of the three groups mentioned in the Bush Doctrine. The final chapters draws conclusions, and while Rapid Decisive Operations is not judged to be utterly without merit, the concept is found to lack applicability in the areas of warfare most likely to face the United States in coming decades. The monograph concludes by recommending that Joint Forces Command re- examine the assumptions underlying Rapid Decisive Operations and consider designing a new Joint Warfighting Concept from properly validated assumptions.
Download or read book Deep Maneuver written by Jack D Kern Editor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 5, Deep Maneuver: Historical Case Studies of Maneuver in Large-Scale Combat Operations, presents eleven case studies from World War II through Operation Iraqi Freedom focusing on deep maneuver in terms of time, space and purpose. Deep operations require boldness and audacity, and yet carry an element of risk of overextension - especially in light of the independent factors of geography and weather that are ever-present. As a result, the case studies address not only successes, but also failure and shortfalls that result when conducting deep operations. The final two chapters address these considerations for future Deep Maneuver.
Download or read book Reshaping the Expeditionary Army to Win Decisively The Case for Greater Stabilization Capacity in the Modular Force written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the U.S. Army is decisively engaged in both fighting an unfamiliar type of war and transforming itself to meet the challenges of future warfare. But what are those challenges? What capabilities does U.S. strategy demand of its military instrument? Where are the major capability gaps, and how should they inform Army Transformation to ensure the future expeditionary Army has the right campaign qualities? This paper argues that the major capability gap in today's force - and vital for future campaigns - is the ability to conduct stabilization. It begins with exploring the changes in U.S. strategy that are the impetus behind the need for greater capacity to conduct post conflict stabilization and reconstruction. Then, it analyzes the emerging role of the Army in post-conflict operations in the context of modern combat to more fully understand the specific requirements of stabilization. The paper then develops an operational concept - progressive stabilization - that complements the Army's concept of rapid decisive operations while improving its ability to contribute to long-term conflict resolution. It outlines three key force attributes an expeditionary force structure must have to provide the requisite mix of combat and stabilization capabilities. Finally, this paper builds on those attributes to suggest three areas where Army leaders must make near-term adjustments in the Modular Force to ensure the nation has a truly expeditionary force with the campaign capacity for both rapid decisive operations and stabilization.
Download or read book Operation Just Cause written by James H. Embrey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 2000, the 'Defense Planning Guidance' tasked U.S. Joint Forces Command to develop new joint warfighting concepts and capabilities. These capabilities should provide the U.S. military by 2015 the ability to defeat an enemy rapidly and decisively. Focused on winning high-end, small-scale contingencies (such as the Panama operation), 'fully networked and coherent joint forces' will employ superior knowledge, precision and mobility against an enemy's critical functions to 'create maximum shock and disruption, defeating his will and ability to fight'. In all, Operation JUST CAUSE, conducted over a decade ago, accomplished these same results. This study will examine how Southern Command and its warfighting Joint Task Force-South (JTFSO) organized, planned, prepared, and executed joint operations that resulted in the total, cataclysmic collapse of Manuel Noriega's Panamanian Defense Force (PDF). Using the factors that provided success, the final section of this study will suggest elements that should provide a guide to developing of future concepts and structure for RDO.
Download or read book The Evolution of US Army Tactical Doctrine 1946 76 written by Robert A. Doughty and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper focuses on the formulation of doctrine since World War II. In no comparable period in history have the dimensions of the battlefield been so altered by rapid technological changes. The need for the tactical doctrines of the Army to remain correspondingly abreast of these changes is thus more pressing than ever before. Future conflicts are not likely to develop in the leisurely fashions of the past where tactical doctrines could be refined on the battlefield itself. It is, therefore, imperative that we apprehend future problems with as much accuracy as possible. One means of doing so is to pay particular attention to the business of how the Army's doctrine has developed historically, with a view to improving methods of future development.
