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Generating opportunity from uncertainty.(contemporary issues)(Report)
Introduction
Uncertainty both pervades the current international security environment and obstructs our view of how this environment will evolve.
--David C. Gompert (1)
While the world displays growing strategic uncertainty, a potential disconnect has developed between military and business leaders on the treatment of uncertainty. The common view held today in business is reflected in the observation that organizations "abhor uncertainty." (2) Meanwhile, the military has long faced uncertainty in the conduct of war. (3) As a result, military leaders act on the best information available about how a human enemy will reason or react. Military ...
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