Cognitive Superiority
Understanding the operating environment and potential adversaries relative to Alliance’s own capabilities, capacities and objectives.
Layered Resilience
Ability to absorb shocks and fight-on, across all layers, military, civil-military and military civilian.
Influence and Power Projection
Shaping positively the environment to the Alliance’s strengths. Including generating options and imposing dilemmas on adversaries.
Cross-Domain Command
Revitalizing and enabling commanders’ ability to understand the multi-domain operating environment and act rapidly and effectively.
Integrated Multi-Domain Defence
Protecting the Alliance’s integrity to decide and act against threats in any domain, regardless of their origin or nature.
SIX OUTS
Success demands a military instrument able to out-think by anticipating threats and understanding the strategic environment; out-excel by striving towards excellence through integrity, people and culture; out-fight by operating decisively within and across domains; out-pace by recognising risks, seizing opportunities, deciding and acting faster than any potential adversary; out-partner by building interoperability and fostering mutually supportive relationships and partnerships; and out-last, by enduring as long as it takes through competition and any conflict situation. It must be able to do all of these things across three operational contexts: shaping, contesting and fighting.
Together, these indispensable and mutually reinforcing “outs” should help identify new operational concepts and capabilities, especially those that could have ‘game changing’ potential, enabling the Alliance to get ahead of, rather than just react to the threats it faces.
