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Contents July-August 2014
Volume 94 ◆ Number 4
28 Hurtling Toward Failure
Complexity in Army Operations
Maj. Donald L. Kingston Jr., U.S. Army
The crash of Air France Flight 447 illustrates how the
increased complexity of information systems and our
reliance on them increase the risk of catastrophic
mission failure.
33 Sustaining the Army
National Guard as an
Operational Force
Col. Thomas M. Zubik, U.S. Army Reserve,
Col. Paul C. Hastings, U.S. Army National
Guard, Retired, and Col. Michael J. Glisson,
U.S. Army National Guard
Three officers assert the need for the Army National
Guard to maintain its designation as an operational
force and provide guidance on how to get it done.
44 The Defense Entrepreneurs
Forum
Developing a Culture of Innovation
Lt. Col. Curtis D. Taylor, U.S. Army, and
Maj. Nathan K. Finney, U.S. Army
To foster a culture of innovation, the Army needs a
means for lower-ranking personnel to connect with one
another to refine and incubate their ideas, and a forum
to discuss them. The Defense Entrepreneurs Forum can
provide that mechanism.
50 War as Political Work
Using Social Science for Strategic
Success
Matthew J. Schmidt, Ph.D.
Army culture favors a quantitative/predictive approach
to analyze problems. The author argues, however, that
strategic thinking requires the relative subjectivity of a
qualitative approach to problem solving.
58 Army Experimentation
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Developing the Army of the Future—
Army 2020
Van Brewer, Ph.D., and Capt. Michala Smith,
U.S. Navy, Retired
The authors discuss how Army experimentation helps to
validate emerging concepts and accurately predict the
effect of future force structures and force reductions in
real-world scenarios.
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