On Learning: Metrics Based Systems for Countering Asymmetric Threats

An organization learns only if it measures. This is the simple underlying idea of this monograph. It is important because the current international system, with all of its conflict and tension, requires the U.S. Army to learn a great many things in order to fulfill its mandate of winning the nation's wars. Ignoring this simple idea condemns the nation to repeating previous mistakes in national defense with increasingly dangerous consequences. While doctrine serves to capture generally accep...