PREDICTING THE ‘WHETHER’
is revolutionary. Tat’s game-changing. I mean, not to be facetious, but if we were able to achieve the kind of virtual data wall that they show in the TV show
“Intelligence,” where the guy has a chip in his head, that would be revolution- ary, because then you would have the ability of leaders at the lowest level to go through multiple repetitions of virtual training so that they were able to com- press [Malcolm] Gladwell’s 10,000 hours [the idea, based on a study by the psy- chologist Anders Ericsson, that mastery of a skill is often the process of spending 10,000 hours practicing] so that they had the judgment and experience to employ all the capabilities that we put at the beck and call of our special operators, even though they’re 20 to 25 years old. Tat is revolutionary.
So, the human first. Ten changing the physical plant that the Army uses so that you’re able to respond and influence events at speed as we’ve discussed, oper- ate in a more distributed fashion where you make exterior lines an advantage and not a challenge because you demand less logistically. And you’re able to present the enemy with multiple dilemmas simulta- neously. Tat’s revolutionary.
We have been striving to conduct a nonlinear kind of distributed operations for decades, and we’ve done it successfully, really, in only one major operation. And that, of course, was Panama, where we took, I think it was 22 separate targets in about 14 hours. I’m talking about major facilities, government locations, units, etc. Being able to do that on a routine and recurring basis
in the future will
have a fundamental impact on how we operate—and, quite frankly, how we’re able to deter conflict, control it, manage it and further our interests. So that’s revolutionary, and that’s where change in the materiel piece that Chris Cross talked
146 AN INTERNATIONAL EFFORT
Soldiers operating as part of Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) navigate an obstacle course March 19 during the 2014 Force Skills Competition on North Camp in El Gorah, Egypt. In planning for the future, ARCIC involves not only intelligence agencies and other services and organizations, but also international partners. (Photo by SGT Thomas Duval, Task Force Sinai)
about
is
so important. So those three
things right there are all revolutions that have great opportunity.
Army AL&T: You mentioned Unified Quest. How does ARCIC keep up with the competition, keep track and ahead of our adversaries’ capabilities? Do you have a red team that does that sort of thing?
MG Hix: Yes, our TRADOC G-2 [which develops, delivers and validates the
operational environment products and services to enable realistic training, leader development, education, concepts and capabilities] is responsible for projecting the future operational environment, and [for] looking at strategic and operational and tactical trends in conjunction with a lot of other elements or intelligence agen- cies, down to the very science that’s being explored and invested in across the globe. So we’re not focused solely on the current adversaries; we’re looking at technological
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