The military's tech adoption is outdated and slow compared to the private sector. Improvement actions required: empower program executive officers, enhance financial reporting, and monitor demand.

Workforce shortages are creating smaller workgroups, putting more pressure on routine tasks, and making it difficult to focus on the operational and strategic roles and inputs—while also adversely affecting worker health and welfare.

Ideally, the new manager should have a reliable mentor to guide them through the initial phase. However, this is only sometimes feasible, so awareness of common mistakes might be helpful

The categorical imperative is the moral obligation to act as you would be willing to have everyone else so act. The author argues that every decision we make contributes to a new cultural norm and can impact the success of an organisation.

Drones continue dominating news reports, but they aren’t used in large numbers or swarms. Technology has to improve for them to be really effective. Regarding technology, drones are more like WW1 biplanes than war-winning WW2 aircraft.

It seems F13 wasn’t used because of superstition. Instead, a YF-17 prototype (late 1960’s) lightweight fighter was designed to be cheaper than the F15 but lost out to the F16. So after a redesign, it became the F/A-18.

A US Marine was killed in Afghanistan due to failure to follow correct procedures. Troy Black blames himself and is now focused on improving training to prevent the same sort of thing from happening again.

China now spends more than the next 25 Asian nations combined on defence. Over the decade, its spending has grown 75% compared to 33% for the region. India is the second-largest military spender, then Japan, South Korea, Australia and Taiwan.

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ADF DEFINITION OF LEADERSHIP: The process of influencing others to gain their willing consent in the ethical pursuit of missions. ADDP 00.6 Leadership Ed2