Winning the Fight: A Conceptual Framework for Combat Performance Enhancement

This book provides clear, concise, practical guidelines for how to increase your chances of victory in any hostile encounter. One of the oldest maxims of combat, is that the core fundamentals for success remain the same whether you are defending your home from an intruder or commanding a combined arms task force in conventional warfare. This book is designed to radically change the way you think about problems, assess threats, train for combat, plan contingencies and adapt to unexpected changes.

Topics covered in the book include...

- Strategic thinking, planning and adaptability

- Threat assessment and risk assessment

- Contingency planning and wargaming

- Operations and intelligence cycle

- Defensive planning, threat indicators and alert levels

- Identifying intelligence gaps and collection requirements

- Deception, denial and offensive counterintelligence planning

- Mission command and command and control architecture

- Offensive planning, mobility and terrain

- Training, selection and organizational culture

- Identifying strength and weaknesses through self-assessment

- Steps for personal or organizational performance enhancement