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David Lyle
7 Mar 2018
Fifth Generation Warfare and Other Myths: Clarifying Muddled Thinking in our Current Defense Debates
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...
David Lyle
28 Feb 2018
Global Command and Control: Challenges and Opportunities
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...
David Lyle
28 Feb 2018
Fundamental C2 Functions, Tensions and Tradeoffs
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...
Greg Sharpe
15 Feb 2018
ASPJ: Global Command and Control for the Future Operating Concept: Implications for Structural Design and Information Flow
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...
David Lyle
18 Aug 2017
What does SECDEF think of the USAF's Effects Based Approach to Operations?
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...
David Lyle
16 Aug 2017
Thoughts on C2 in Contested Environments
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...
David Lyle
16 Aug 2017
The Air Tasking Order – A Sacred Cow?
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...
David Lyle
10 Aug 2017
C2 and Operational Art Literature Review – September 2017
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...
David Lyle
30 Nov 2016
Developing Strategic Advantage through C2 of the Global Sensor to Effects Grid - Blue Horizons
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...
David Lyle
29 Nov 2016
Avoiding a Classic Strategy Blunder in the Third Offset – the Two Types of C2 Challenges
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...