Air and Space Power Centre will be joining the Avalon 2023 - Australian Internation Air Show running from the 28th of February to the 5th of March.
Applying Wylie's Cumulative and Sequential Patterns to Air OperationsPeter Layton
This presentation was a discussion on the growing interest in, and challenges with, Human-Machine Teaming (HMT).
Defence forces worldwide need to transform their air forces into organisations that can accommodate 5th generation air power technologies in joint
Strategist Joseph Caldwell Wylie argued that strategies were implemented through two general types of operational patterns: (1) cumulative warfare, which involves “a collection of lesser actions” where tactical actions gradually built up to have strategic impact; and (2) sequential warfare, which is “a series of discrete steps” where each lead to the next; an example being the island hopping campaign across the Pacific during World War Two.
Multiple challenges are coming fast and simultaneously creating a future operational environment of unprecedented complexity. For example:
It is a relatively common trend that solving an organisational strategic issue reveals another.
With the implementation of digital technology, came the resistance to change and
implementing change agents brought about the awareness of having a safe-to-fail culture.
This publication was initially published as part of the Drew Papers series by Air University Press, Alabam US.
Unlike defensive air operations which are reactive, offensive air operations are undertaken where and when an air force chooses.
application of aerospace power has seen significant developments since 1994, most notably through American-led operations in Central Europe and Afghanistan, and continuing technological advances with weapons, uninhabited vehicles, space-based systems and information systems.
