![]() ![]() An operating concept must establish the conditions and provide a framework for the testing of ideas, technology, and even outside-the-box ideas about warfare. The operating concept should establish the basis for reasoned exploration of emerging operational approaches, tactics, techniques, and procedures that are observable in ongoing conflicts, that develop as a function of new technologies, and that bubble up from the field as units train with what is in the motor pool right now. The Army cannot afford for its future-focused operating concept to confuse the hell out of the force. ![]() No matter what the case, it confuses the hell out of the rest of the force.”* “Or, worse, they do not know the origins and meaning of the ideas and doctrine and do not want to be found out. “I often fear that these terms are employed by those who peddle them to look like they are part of the ‘in’ crowd,” he wrote to a group of strategy professionals. Dave Johnson, a retired colonel and an intellectual force in the defense community, warned of the danger of this. The Army, arguably too often, wraps ideas in layers of buzzwords, jargon that must be navigated to get even the most basic sense of what is actually being said. ![]()
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