Technology Force Multiplier For Special Operations

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1423540751

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Defining Critical Technologies for Special Operations by Anonim Pdf

As the military forces of the United States continue to draw down, Special Operations Forces (SOF) are playing a greater role across the entire spectrum of conflict. In order to maintain its relative advantage, SOF is using technology as a means to leverage limited resources - sometimes to the point that mission accomplishment depends critically on a technology's availability. Adversaries will attempt to challenge our advantages. Whether Special Operations Forces are prepared to operate in a degraded environment could determine success or failure. This thesis examines the issue of critical technologies in special operations. Critical technologies are defined according to three variables - level of dependence, degree of vulnerability, and substitutability. By examining technologies against these three variables, SOF can gain a better understanding of the impact to SOF operations if a technical capability is lost. Three technologies are examined to illustrate the model - the use of Radar in the Battle of Britain, the Global Positioning System, and UHF Satellite Communications. By applying the model to actual cases, I hope to encourage SOF decision makers to closely examine our growing reliance on vulnerable technologies as a force multiplier and provide recommendations to prevent undue reliance on those technologies.

Author : Lawrence W. McLaughlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Global Positioning System
ISBN : OCLC:43456195

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Defining Critical Technologies for Special Operations by Lawrence W. McLaughlin Pdf

As the military forces of the United States continue to draw down, Special Operations Forces (SOF) are playing a greater role across the entire spectrum of conflict. In order to maintain its relative advantage, SOF is using technology as a means to leverage limited resources - sometimes to the point that mission accomplishment depends critically on a technology's availability. Adversaries will attempt to challenge our advantages. Whether Special Operations Forces are prepared to operate in a degraded environment could determine success or failure. This thesis examines the issue of critical technologies in special operations. Critical technologies are defined according to three variables - level of dependence, degree of vulnerability, and substitutability. By examining technologies against these three variables, SOF can gain a better understanding of the impact to SOF operations if a technical capability is lost. Three technologies are examined to illustrate the model - the use of Radar in the Battle of Britain, the Global Positioning System, and UHF Satellite Communications. By applying the model to actual cases, I hope to encourage SOF decision makers to closely examine our growing reliance on vulnerable technologies as a force multiplier and provide recommendations to prevent undue reliance on those technologies.

Author : Major Lawrence W. McLaughlin
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782899822

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Defining Critical Technologies For Special Operations by Major Lawrence W. McLaughlin Pdf

As the military forces of the United States continue to draw down, Special Operations Forces (SOF) are playing a greater role across the entire spectrum of conflict. In order to maintain its relative advantage, SOF is using technology as a means to leverage limited resources—sometimes to the point that mission accomplishment depends critically on a technology’s availability. Adversaries will attempt to challenge our advantages. Whether Special Operations Forces are prepared to operate in a degraded environment could determine success or failure. This thesis examines the issue of critical technologies in special operations. Critical technologies are defined according to three variables—level of dependence, degree of vulnerability, and substitutability. By examining technologies against these three variables, SOF can gain a better understanding of the impact to SOF operations if a technical capability is lost. Three technologies are examined to illustrate the model—the use of Radar in the Battle of Britain, the Global Positioning System, and UHF Satellite Communications. By applying the model to actual cases, I hope to encourage SOF decision-makers to closely examine our growing reliance on vulnerable technologies as a force multiplier and provide recommendations to prevent undue reliance on those technologies.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Army Science and Technology,Committee on Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309307369

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Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Army Science and Technology,Committee on Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations Pdf

The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of military operations and spectrum of conflict in support of combatant commanders. Accomplishing this mission rests on the ability of the Army to equip and move its forces to the battle and sustain them while they are engaged. Logistics provides the backbone for Army combat operations. Without fuel, ammunition, rations, and other supplies, the Army would grind to a halt. The U.S. military must be prepared to fight anywhere on the globe and, in an era of coalition warfare, to logistically support its allies. While aircraft can move large amounts of supplies, the vast majority must be carried on ocean going vessels and unloaded at ports that may be at a great distance from the battlefield. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have shown, the costs of convoying vast quantities of supplies is tallied not only in economic terms but also in terms of lives lost in the movement of the materiel. As the ability of potential enemies to interdict movement to the battlefield and interdict movements in the battlespace increases, the challenge of logistics grows even larger. No matter how the nature of battle develops, logistics will remain a key factor. Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations explores Army logistics in a global, complex environment that includes the increasing use of antiaccess and area-denial tactics and technologies by potential adversaries. This report describes new technologies and systems that would reduce the demand for logistics and meet the demand at the point of need, make maintenance more efficient, improve inter- and intratheater mobility, and improve near-real-time, in-transit visibility. Force Multiplying Technologies also explores options for the Army to operate with the other services and improve its support of Special Operations Forces. This report provides a logistics-centric research and development investment strategy and illustrative examples of how improved logistics could look in the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133459490

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Defense Issues by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000025808186

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Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1996 and the Future Years Defense Program: Military posture by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119606007

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Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1993 and the Future Years Defense Program by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : PURD:32754083029391

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Special Warfare by Anonim Pdf

Author : U.S. Special Operations Command
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)
ISBN : MINN:30000010448193

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United States Special Operations Forces Posture Statement by U.S. Special Operations Command Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Internet
ISBN : CUB:U183019886112

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Defense Viewpoint by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1568067801

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U.s. Special Operations Forces by Anonim Pdf

Describes the position of the U.S. special operations forces in terms of their preparedness for possible military requirements.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Defense Policy Panel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000021227011

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Regional Threats and Defense Options for the 1990s by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Defense Policy Panel Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Standing Committee on Research, Development, and Acquisition Options for U.S. Special Operations Command,Committee on Sensing and Communications Capabilities for Special Operations Forces
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309137607

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Sensing and Supporting Communications Capabilities for Special Operations Forces by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Standing Committee on Research, Development, and Acquisition Options for U.S. Special Operations Command,Committee on Sensing and Communications Capabilities for Special Operations Forces Pdf

Among its key responsibilities, the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) plans and synchronizes operations against terrorist networks. At any given moment, SOF are likely to be engaged in some state of the planning or execution of special operations in many countries around the world, spanning a wide range of environments and mission. SOF therefore must be capable of operating in environments ranging from tropical jungle to arctic, maritime to desert, subterranean to mountainous, and rural to urban. Within this vast range additional factors may influence technical and operational requirements including weather, topography, bathymetry, geology, flora, fauna, and human population density. All of these factors must be weighed in terms of the challenges they pose to supporting communications and operational security. In short, SOF must maintain the capability to operate globally, in any environment, angainst any threats that can be countered by its unique capabilities. Sensing and Supporting Communications Capabilities for Special Operations Forces focuses primarily on the key core SOF task of special reconnaissance, to determine SOF-specific sensing and supporting communications needs and mapping them to existing and emerging technologies. The book discusses preliminary observations, issuees, and challenges, and identifies additional capabilities and technology areas that should be addressed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medicine, Military
ISBN : MINN:31951P01181876I

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Journal of Special Operations Medicine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:946120404

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The DIM MAK Response of Special Operations Forces to the World of 2025: "Zero Tolerance/Zero Error." by Anonim Pdf

Special operations missions are both enduring and compelling in nature. In the past, special operations forces (SOF) led the way for conventional forces by applying cutting-edge innovative technology and tactics. This Department of Defense (DOD) force multiplier effectively leverages minimum capital investment into military capability equally effective in first, second, and third wave environments. The focus of this paper is to provide new ideas for employing SOF in the world which might exist in 2025. The methodology used allowed team members to produce new concepts of operation, employing innovative technologies against missions which will likely exist within the study time frame. After defining 2025 SOF offensive missions, the study group selected the top three capabilities needed to perform these missions. The three capabilities selected were required in all four SOF offensive missions and the missions could not be performed if any one of the three capabilities were missing. Numerous capabilities are required to successfully accomplish the SOF tasks, but the team restricted research to the top three priority enabling capabilities (EC). The paper takes the reader through a mission validation process which provides justification for the envisioned four SOF offensive missions. Assumptions are used to project these missions into the future. The paper's authors used alternate futures to form the boundaries for concept of operation development and technology solutions. The mission requirements, satisfied by the three ECs, resulted in three sets of unique capability requirements. Proposed technological solutions which might exist in 2025 fulfill requirements of the ECs. The result is a futurist view of SOF offensive missions and how these missions might be accomplished.