The geography of the Pacific can present challenges for command and control (C2) of air operations, especially in the face of attempts to disrupt C2. This report recommends methods for comparing and contrasting alternative organizational concepts for C2 of joint air operations in the Pacific and applies them to a selection of concepts for two different scenarios, humanitarian and disaster relief and a major war with a near-peer competitor.

Command and Control of Joint Air Operations in the Pacific: Methods for Comparing and Contrasting Alternative Concepts

History

Gordon, David

Baxter, Caroline

Alkire, Brien

Chen, Christine

Romano, Daniel M.

Lingel, Sherrill

Menthe, Lance

Hanser, Lawrence M.

Carson, Christopher

Military

RAND Corporation

<p>To address concerns that warfare could extend to space, the national security space community has taken steps to enhance space mission assurance (SMA), leading to an increasing demand for assessments of SMA. The authors describe decisionmaker needs for assessments of SMA, challenges for conducting assessments, the shortfalls that may result from the challenges, and options for addressing the shortfalls.</p>

Enhancing Assessments of Space Mission Assurance

Berry, Matthew

Dimarogonas, James

Martin, Nicholas

Kim, Yool

Blancett, David

Inamdar, Niraj

Nacouzi, George

Williams, William A.

Predd, Joel B.

<p>The authors seek to provide an initial examination of how complex adaptive systems thinking can frame opportunities and challenges of complexity in warfare. They examine how complex adaptive systems thinking can be applied to great-power competition and warfare to aid in understanding how complexity might be exploited to U.S. advantage.</p>

Leveraging Complexity in Great-Power Competition and Warfare: An Initial Exploration of How Complex Adaptive Systems Thinking Can Frame Opportunities and Challenges (Volume I)

Sargent, Matthew

Gulden, Timothy R.

McDonald, Tim

Rockstroh, Parousia

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