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4. Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA) pour la sécurité
de l’aviation civile, translated from French by BEA, “Final Report
on the accident on 1st June 2009 to the Airbus A330-203
registered F-GZCP operated by Air France flight AF 447 Rio
De Janeiro-Paris” (Paris, France: BEA, Ministère de l’Écologie,
du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement,
2012), http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601.en/pdf/fcp090601.en.pdf.
5. Andrew Zolli, “Want to Build Resilience? Kill the Complexity,” Harvard Business Review (2 December 2012), http://blogs.hbr.
org/2012/09/want-to-build-resilience-kill-the-complexity/ .
6. J.M. Carlson and John Doyle, “Complexity and Robustness,”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United
States of America 99 Suppl 1 (19 February 2002), http://www.pnas.
org/content/99/suppl_1/2538.full.pdf.
7. For an interesting discussion on military decision making and
information technology, see John W. Charlton, “Digitized Chaos: Is
Our Military Decision Making Process Ready for the Information
Age?” (School of Advanced Military Studies [SAMS] monograph,
Washington, DC: GPO, 1997), http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA339521.
8. ADRP 3-0.
9. For more information about the evolution of Army information systems as a means to reduce uncertainty, see Richard S.
Jeffress, “The Continuing Quest for Certainty: Decision Superiority
and the Future Force” (SAMS monograph, Washington, DC: GPO,
2004).
10. The major subordinate networks integrated into Command
Post of the Future are—Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data

System, Effects Management Tool, Distributive Common Ground
Systems-Army, All Source Analysis System, Battle Command Support and Sustainment Systems, Blue Force Tracker, and Command
and Control Personal Computer. See a detailed listing at the U.S.
Army National Guard Mission Training Complex website, http://
www-bctc.army.mil/cpof.htm.
11. Anukool Lakhina, “We Need to Prevent Data Insights from
Dying in the Big Data Avalanche,” blog post at GigaOM.com, 6
October 2012, http://gigaom.com/data/we-need-to-prevent-insights-from-dying-in-the-big-data-avalanche/.
12. For examples of proponents’ functional claims for Army
information systems, see the Program Executive Office Command
Control Communications-Tactical website, http://peoc3t.army.mil/
mc/tmc.php.
13. For more about Gen. McChrystal’s approach to information sharing, see Stanley A. McChrystal, “The Power of Sharing,”
videorecording, 7 May 2014, at http://www.trendhunter.com/
keynote/information-sharing-talk ; and “It Takes a Network: The
New Front Line of Modern Warfare,” Foreign Policy.com, 22 February 2011, at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/22/
it_takes_a_network.
14. G. Scott Gorman, “Adapting to Chaos: American Soldiers
in Siberia, 1918-1920” (SAMS monograph, Washington, DC: GPO,
1998), 43, http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a366245.pdf.
15. Training and Doctrine Command, Department of the
Army, TRADOC Pamphlet 525-3-0, The U.S. Army Capstone Concept (Washington, DC: GPO, 19 December, 2012).
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.

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