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 ...

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 ...

Across the U.S. armed forces, artificial intelligence is no longer confined to research labs or experimental projects. It is now reshaping how service members learn, train, and prepare for combat.

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 ...