C2 For Effect

FIFTH GENERATION WARFARE AND OTHER MYTHS: CLARIFYING MUDDLED THINKING IN OUR CURRENT DEFENSE DEBATES

By Dave “Sugar” Lyle

When you are talking about the command and control of forces that could potentially destroy human society as we know it, you owe it to the rest of humanity to be very precise with your terms and concepts – matters of such extreme importance require the greatest degree of conceptual due…

Global Command and Control: Challenges and Opportunities

(Condensed from various C2 subject matter expert inputs by the LeMay Center Strategy & Concepts team)

The Air Force reexamination of global command and control comes at the perfect time, as the Joint Staff and OSD also realize that our legacy constructs lack the granularity and responsiveness needed to successfully succeed in an increasingly connected world.…

Fundamental C2 functions, tensions and tradeoffs – Lt Col Dave “Sugar” Lyle

As it is with any inherently multidisciplinary activity where competing interests and imperatives are in play, the practice of Command and Control is much more about understanding tensions and balancing tradeoffs than it is about finding optimum solutions. Although not exhaustive, these are a few useful ways to think about the…

Written by Maj Ian Slazinik, USAF & Maj Ben Hazen, USAF

This article analyzes the information flow through theater air mobility command and control (C2) organizations in an effort to uncover guidelines to adapt organizational structures and processes to increase the speed and reach of information. These guidelines would aim to improve organizational agility and decision making while adapting to future trends in the…

What is Secretary of Defense James Mattis' current position on effects and effects based approaches to operations?

Effects Based Operations was a methodology for planning military operations that had flowed out of a number of previous methodologies, including the concepts of John Warden implemented by the US led coalition in Operation Desert Storm, System of Systems Analysis (SOSA), and Israeli Systemic Operational…

Some Fundamental Concepts of C2 in Contested Environments

Lt Col Dave Lyle, LeMay Center Strategy & Concepts

The challenges of command and control in contested environments are not new, nor should they surprise us. General Helmuth Von Moltke the Younger became intimately familiar with these challenges in 1914 while losing the First Battle of the Marne in World War I, when a powerful radio transmitter on the top of…

This is a thought piece produced by collaboration amongst Air University C2 subject matter experts, led and edited by LeMay Center Strategy & Concepts, to address a question from an Air Force senior leader, asking if the Air Tasking Order had become a sacred cow. Q: "I think a robust investigation into its utility through the years, how it was developed and evolved, and what purpose(s) it ultimately serves would really…

C2 and Operational Art Literature Review – September 2017

(Arranged in chronological order - please send any additional nominations for the next update to david.lyle.1@us.af.mil)

The Evolution of Operational Art, Brigade Commander Georgii Samoilovich Isserson, 1936

Implications of centralized control and decentralized execution. John G. Cronican, Jr., Lt. Col., USAF.  AU Airpower Symposium Conference draft, Dec 1979…

All - this is the paper written by Blue Horizons and their network that is driving senior leader discussion at HAF - DJL

Developing Strategic Advantage through C2 of the Global Sensor to Effects Grid

Blue Horizons Program at Air University

1 Sept 2016

                This concept paper explores how the USAF can develop strategic advantage through mastery of command, control, and exploitation of the global sensor and joint effects…

This is the paper I wrote for the OSD Operational Challenges call for papers, also composed to support the C2 ECCT problem framing - DJL

Avoiding a Classic Strategy Blunder in the Third Offset – the Two Types of C2 Challenges

Lt Col Dave “Sugar” Lyle, USAF

LeMay Center, Air University

david.lyle.1@us.af.mil

DSN 493-3789

Cell 913 306-4712

War has always been about both science and…