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'Game Out' Decision Making
As the world reenters an era of great power competition, many of the geopolitical and ideological certainties that lend NATO its sense of purpose are dissolving. However, the Western democratic values on which the Alliance was founded, on which its success has been built, and from which it continues to derive its moral authority, endure. The principles of consensus and mutually assured security are as important as ever.
As challenges proliferate, one of the greatest threats to NATO could be a lack of confidence—not in the organization’s central purpose or relevance, but in its ability to succeed in an increasingly fluid, fast-moving, and ambiguous world.
Key Takeaways:
- 0:00 Intro
- 1:52 Christopher sums up the essence of his recommendation, complexity and how we can use the available technology to harness complexity
- 2:39 Christopher talks about the importance of agility and speed and the reason why NATO is failing is because it lacks this
- 3:37 Christopher also speaks of distributed computation and the ability to use it so as to create a virtual world and how it’s important
- 5:23 Christopher explains the alternate reality which is the Single Synthetic Environment
- 7:47 Christopher talks about how Single Synthetic Environment is going to work practically in the NATO’s sphere of control
- 9:57 Christopher also talks about the impact that NATO could experience if it made the consensus building process easier than it currently is in the decision making
- 12:48 Christopher encourages NATO to have different approach to visualizing crises and conflicts below and above the classic threshold as they're occurring
- 14:46 Christopher suggests of finding ways to protect data, rather than data transmitting
- 18:03 Christopher talks about the use of technology in NATO, why it is important and how it promotes human imagination and experience
- 21:16 Christopher speaks of how his model helps analyze the best course of action to take when faced with a version in crisis
- 24:12 Christopher explains how synthetic environments could be extremely useful and how it assists in decision making
- 25:29 Christopher also speaks of how NATO sometimes seems so slow to get on board with new ideas
Shows Mentioned:
https://improbable.io/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/nato20-2020/game-out-decision-making/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/
https://twitter.com/hashtag/strongerwithallies?lang=en
Quotes Mentioned:
“The world that we inhabit today is drowning in data.”
“Distributed computation brings together multiple models of the world in which we are in at the moment.”
“Potential to speed up the decision making on the crisis should be made easier because every single person is able to see the same information.”
“We’ve concentrated a lot on the strategic decision makers and how synthetic environments could be extremely useful, not replacing, but assisting that decision making.”
“If we don't speed up that consensus process, then arguably, we're going to lose the competitive edge that NATO has enjoyed.”
“If this technology can help, then it's technology that should be adopted.”
Guests Social Media Links:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/am-sir-christopher-harper-kbe-raf-ret/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sir-chris-harper/?originalSubdomain=uk
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By NATOAs the world reenters an era of great power competition, many of the geopolitical and ideological certainties that lend NATO its sense of purpose are dissolving. However, the Western democratic values on which the Alliance was founded, on which its success has been built, and from which it continues to derive its moral authority, endure. The principles of consensus and mutually assured security are as important as ever.
As challenges proliferate, one of the greatest threats to NATO could be a lack of confidence—not in the organization’s central purpose or relevance, but in its ability to succeed in an increasingly fluid, fast-moving, and ambiguous world.
Key Takeaways:
- 0:00 Intro
- 1:52 Christopher sums up the essence of his recommendation, complexity and how we can use the available technology to harness complexity
- 2:39 Christopher talks about the importance of agility and speed and the reason why NATO is failing is because it lacks this
- 3:37 Christopher also speaks of distributed computation and the ability to use it so as to create a virtual world and how it’s important
- 5:23 Christopher explains the alternate reality which is the Single Synthetic Environment
- 7:47 Christopher talks about how Single Synthetic Environment is going to work practically in the NATO’s sphere of control
- 9:57 Christopher also talks about the impact that NATO could experience if it made the consensus building process easier than it currently is in the decision making
- 12:48 Christopher encourages NATO to have different approach to visualizing crises and conflicts below and above the classic threshold as they're occurring
- 14:46 Christopher suggests of finding ways to protect data, rather than data transmitting
- 18:03 Christopher talks about the use of technology in NATO, why it is important and how it promotes human imagination and experience
- 21:16 Christopher speaks of how his model helps analyze the best course of action to take when faced with a version in crisis
- 24:12 Christopher explains how synthetic environments could be extremely useful and how it assists in decision making
- 25:29 Christopher also speaks of how NATO sometimes seems so slow to get on board with new ideas
Shows Mentioned:
https://improbable.io/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/nato20-2020/game-out-decision-making/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/
https://twitter.com/hashtag/strongerwithallies?lang=en
Quotes Mentioned:
“The world that we inhabit today is drowning in data.”
“Distributed computation brings together multiple models of the world in which we are in at the moment.”
“Potential to speed up the decision making on the crisis should be made easier because every single person is able to see the same information.”
“We’ve concentrated a lot on the strategic decision makers and how synthetic environments could be extremely useful, not replacing, but assisting that decision making.”
“If we don't speed up that consensus process, then arguably, we're going to lose the competitive edge that NATO has enjoyed.”
“If this technology can help, then it's technology that should be adopted.”
Guests Social Media Links:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/am-sir-christopher-harper-kbe-raf-ret/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sir-chris-harper/?originalSubdomain=uk