Adding to the Toolkit: Three Conceptual Tradeoffs

By Christopher E. Austin

This monograph shows how understanding three conceptual tradeoffs of complex versus complicated, complexity at large-scale versus fine-scale, and exploration of potential problems versus exploitation of known solutions can help the military practitioner better learn, anticipate and adapt to difficult problems. It does so by defining the three conceptual tradeoffs and then applying them to Operation Iraqi Freedom for the United States in 2003 and the Israeli incursion into Southern Lebanon by the Israeli Defense Forces in 2006. These difficult operations involved conventional, guerrilla, counterinsurgency and irregular operations that provide two relevant examples to help the military practitioner better prepare for 21st century operations.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1249413915
• ISBN13: 9781249413912
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Biblioscholar
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"