Red Team Member Course

Red Teaming is a function executed by trained, educated, and practiced team members that provides commanders an independent capability to fully explore alternatives in plans, operations, concepts, organizations, and capabilities in the context of the operational environment and from the perspectives of our partners, adversaries, and others.

Red Team Members Course (6 wks, ASI 7J): The course emphasizes critical thinking skills, fostering cultural empathy, self awareness and reflection, groupthink mitigation strategies, and Red Team methodologies. The course is designed to help students anticipate change, reduce uncertainty, and improve operational decision making.

This course utilizes the adult learning model combined with the Socratic method.  Students must be prepared to read 75-100 pages per night and be able to discuss and write about what was read during class.  This class is largely participative with very few formal lectures.