Red Teaming

<p>As warfare continues to become more complex due to the advent and proliferation of new technology blending of ethnic and cultural groups population growth and urbanization and tendency towards asymmetric warfare commanders will have more difficulty in understanding the battlefield and ultimately achieving success. Only through a complete understanding of the operating environment from the perspective of the U.S. its adversaries and local inhabitants of the operational area combined with critical analysis in decision making and planning can the U.S. Army successfully accomplish the diverse and complex missions looming in the future. One proposed method for achieving this understanding is the concept of red teaming. The term red team is a relatively new buzzword used in military and civilian enterprises. However there is no common understanding of what red teaming means. Red teaming can mean role-playing the adversary conducting a vulnerability assessment to determine weaknesses or using analytical techniques to improve intelligence estimates and intelligence synchronization. While these definitions seem unrelated they have in common the ultimate goal of improving decision making through critical thinking and analysis. This commonality forms the basis of the U.S. Army understanding of red teaming. The U.S. Army defines red teaming as 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. The key aspects of this definition are its emphasis on independent thinking challenging the thinking inside the organization incorporating alternative perspectives in an attempt to eliminate cultural and ethnocentric bias and a focus on fully exploring alternatives. The purpose of this monograph i</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>