Figure 1. Soldiers with 5-7 Cavalry, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division reference a training area map with strategic annotations while planning troop movements during exercise ...
While teaching the military decision-making process (MDMP), I found plan­ners struggle with two unglamorous parts of it: risk management and course of action (COA) selection. And I can see why. Risk ...
The OODA Loop—Observe, Orient, Decide, Act—is a continual process that helps improve decision-making speed in conflict situations. Training should focus on reducing the decision time within each phase ...
The concept of the “fog of war” is a well-established dilemma military leaders face, particularly in the context of fast-paced, dynamic operations where the complexities of the battlefield create an ...
Would you stake thousands of lives on a strategy that, by every measure of your training and experience, seems destined for catastrophic failure? In 1863, with the Vicksburg campaign stalled, Maj. Gen ...
Bill Edwards is a retired U.S. Army Colonel, a veteran of the Iraq War, a sUAS security trainer, and Owner of Phoenix 6 Consulting LLC. The Tower 22 attack is one example of where the U.S. Army cites ...
This June marks 81 years since Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the cross-channel invasion of France — a decision dependent upon hundreds, if not thousands of interrelated factors. Success depended ...