The Human-Machine Paradox: A Balanced Approach to Finding and Fixing in 2035

Ferguson et al examine the balanced approach of human-machine paradox to finding and fixing in 2035. Conceptual and disciplinary interoperability became as valuable as digital innovation in Anbar Province circa 2006. Locating the enemy in the coming era of Third Offset technologies will be no exception. Exploring challenges and opportunities in the targeting process will lead to solutions in line with this logic. Senior Army leaders commanding cross-functional teams (CFT) tasked with pursuing modernization initiatives are clear on the difficulties that lay ahead. Army leaders must recognize that there is no purely organizational or technological solution to the future targeting equation. The above proposals alone will not close the loop on finding and fixing in 2035 any more than the AirLand Battle efforts of the 1980s made targeting a linear process in 2006. Rather, these recommendations will arm leaders across the targeting enterprise with the ingenuity required to drive cultural change toward a more holistic shared understanding of digital targeting requirements. It is the authors' intent that this understanding might lead to a more inclusive undertaking that operationalizes the work of the various CFTs by building the human terrain necessary to support digital targeting innovations in JADO.