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DIVISION EXPERTISE
As the largest of EBR’s Divisions, Military Studies can best be
understood in terms of the four major arenas in which it works.
However, the work itself often cuts across these four arenas.
Future Concepts and Evaluation may seem to be an odd pairing
of ideas. However, the past few years of effort to move beyond the
Cold War and prepare for the future (including The Bottom-Up Review,
Joint Vision 2010, and the Quadrennial Defense Review) have shown
that, while the national security and defense communities do not
lack for concepts about the future, very little sound basis exists
for comparing, assessing, or evaluating alternative ideas. EBR has
accepted the challenge of working on both identifying alternative
futures and also creating valid and reliable methods for comparing
and contrasting them.
As in all its programs, EBR’s stock in trade is research and
analysis. For Military Studies, this means identifying key issues
(such as how bandwidth can be managed effectively during military
operations or the proper command arrangements within a coalition),
reviewing what has been written and the research that has been previously
completed, and organizing the issues for analysis (such as commander’s
information requirements and the Naval War College’s exit strategies).
Because so much of the change underway in the national security
arena deals with military operations in the context of broader national
goals, the Military Studies Division has broad research interests.
By bringing together social scientists, military experts, and specialists
with interagency experience, EBR has created products that offer
rich insight in this arena. Under the CCRP, for example, EBR performed
in-depth analyses of the interagency process in Haiti, provided
support to NATO’s analysis of the Bosnia operation, supported the
analysis of C3I experiences and lessons learned by the United States
in Bosnia, and has published leading edge thinking on concepts like
Effects Based Operations.
Because of its leading-edge role in fields as diverse as information
warfare, OOTW, environmental security issues, coalition operations,
and infrastructure assurance, as well as its relationship with ACTIS
at NDU, the Research and Development Operations Program also continues
to make major contributions to professional military education
(PME). This includes organizing several workshops at which national
PME programs are designed for particular topics, publishing more
than a dozen books for use at PME institutions, designing teaching
materials for use in both DoD and DoD-supported courses, and offering
specialized courses.
The origin of the Research and Development Operations Program was
specialized research in the evaluation of C3I systems and processes.
The core of the team that enables EBR to continue to play a leading
role in this field predates the founding of the company. They have
been working this issue area since 1981 and have assessed hundreds
of command centers across more than 70 different exercises, experiments,
and historical analyses.
Research and Development Operations is staffed with military analysts,
retired senior officers and government civilians, social scientists,
and an exceptionally strong administrative staff. Beyond the research
program, the Program organizes and supports two major symposia and
a half dozen focused workshops each year.
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