Posted on May 22, 2018
5 Irrational Reasons Military Leaders Hate Red Teaming
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Excellent explication of the need to speak truth to power. COL Mikel J. Burroughs CDR (Join to see) Col (Join to see) LCDR (Join to see) LTC Stephen F. SP5 Mark Kuzinski GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad Sgt Wayne Wood SGT (Join to see) MSgt George Cater MSG Tom Earley PO1 William "Chip" Nagel CPT Pedro Meza
5 Irrational Reasons Military Leaders Hate Red Teaming
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PO1 Tony Holland thanks for the read and share: # 4 is worth while to me.
By the time a problem reaches a leader, a majority of the relevant information and facts have been filtered out. A staff will simply data mine until they find the information they need to confirm a problem or course of action (this is known as confirmation bias). They will not know they need Red Teaming or have a problem until it’s too late.
SFC William Farrell PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas Maj Marty Hogan SGT (Join to see) SGT Philip Roncari SPC Margaret Higgins SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SP5 Michael Rathbun CW5 Jack Cardwell]] COL Mikel J. Burroughs ] CPL Dave Hoover SFC Shirley Whitfield SPC Jovani Daviu LTC Stephen F. SGT Jim Arnold SSG William Jones SrA Christopher Wright Capt Dwayne Conyers
By the time a problem reaches a leader, a majority of the relevant information and facts have been filtered out. A staff will simply data mine until they find the information they need to confirm a problem or course of action (this is known as confirmation bias). They will not know they need Red Teaming or have a problem until it’s too late.
SFC William Farrell PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas Maj Marty Hogan SGT (Join to see) SGT Philip Roncari SPC Margaret Higgins SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SP5 Michael Rathbun CW5 Jack Cardwell]] COL Mikel J. Burroughs ] CPL Dave Hoover SFC Shirley Whitfield SPC Jovani Daviu LTC Stephen F. SGT Jim Arnold SSG William Jones SrA Christopher Wright Capt Dwayne Conyers
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Leaders who allow themselves to believe that the enemy is predictable and will just sit and await their fate are fools.
Our adversaries can be quite cunning in their use of assets to frustrate and defeat our plans.
I find it particularly relevant in my field of information operations as well as cyber, that several adversaries aren't just good at it, but have significant superiority in these disciplines.
A good red team can really expose vulnerabilities in areas that conventional warfighters often neglect
Our adversaries can be quite cunning in their use of assets to frustrate and defeat our plans.
I find it particularly relevant in my field of information operations as well as cyber, that several adversaries aren't just good at it, but have significant superiority in these disciplines.
A good red team can really expose vulnerabilities in areas that conventional warfighters often neglect
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1SG (Join to see) agreed. But one of the reasons leaders hate red teaming and participating as OPFOR is that during such exercises, the Military slants the game for the good guys to win. Always. Every exercise ends with the US forces winning.
If you aren’t familiar with Marine LTG Paul Van Riper, or the military exercise MC 02, I’ve attached a link. On the biggest scale, the red team struck crippling blows to US forces, quickly and decisively. So the US forces just started over, told Van Riper, “you can’t do that because the enemy wouldn’t do that, and furthermore, you can’t do XYZ moving forward.” (Disclaimer, it was far more complex. Massive exercise, money, real world units involved, etc. read the article, you’ll see).
I understand the need for red teaming, but I always felt it was underutilized by the Army because they didn’t want the real deficiencies in forces to be exposed. Exposure of deficiencies implies that years of dogmatic training may have been for naught, and that stings.
In a perfect world now that I’m out of the Army, there would be a dedicated red team unit stood up of nothing but millennial age soldiers. All day, asking nothing, “but why? That doesn’t make sense?” Exposing holes and deficiencies in US forces, and forcing commanders to take hard looks at the way things are done. That way, the end result force would be that much stronger and lethal.
https://warontherocks.com/2015/11/millennium-challenge-the-real-story-of-a-corrupted-military-exercise-and-its-legacy/
If you aren’t familiar with Marine LTG Paul Van Riper, or the military exercise MC 02, I’ve attached a link. On the biggest scale, the red team struck crippling blows to US forces, quickly and decisively. So the US forces just started over, told Van Riper, “you can’t do that because the enemy wouldn’t do that, and furthermore, you can’t do XYZ moving forward.” (Disclaimer, it was far more complex. Massive exercise, money, real world units involved, etc. read the article, you’ll see).
I understand the need for red teaming, but I always felt it was underutilized by the Army because they didn’t want the real deficiencies in forces to be exposed. Exposure of deficiencies implies that years of dogmatic training may have been for naught, and that stings.
In a perfect world now that I’m out of the Army, there would be a dedicated red team unit stood up of nothing but millennial age soldiers. All day, asking nothing, “but why? That doesn’t make sense?” Exposing holes and deficiencies in US forces, and forcing commanders to take hard looks at the way things are done. That way, the end result force would be that much stronger and lethal.
https://warontherocks.com/2015/11/millennium-challenge-the-real-story-of-a-corrupted-military-exercise-and-its-legacy/
Millennium Challenge: The Real Story of a Corrupted Military Exercise and its Legacy
Since the infamous Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC ’02) concept-development exercise, run by the now-defunct U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), was leaked in the press 13 years ago, strong opinions have been expressed about its failure and lessons. When it was conducted, this exercise was the most ambitious and costly
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SP5 Michael Rathbun
Every generation forgets anew the fact that the Other Guys are just like us, with different trimmings. Are we clever? So are they. Do we have some rather stupid misconceptions? So do they.
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