This topic has sparked much interest due to the recognition that commanders will face an environment that is much more complex than in the past. One reason that complexity will be increasing is because digitization is quickly heightening the flow of information to an incomprehensible rate. Also, the commanders will be asked to complete their operation with fewer soldiers as the Army continues to downsize. Thus, I am exploring how an individual navigates through the complex probabilistic environments described above. However, missing from the central components is the aspect of Self-Regulation.
Preliminary research suggests that Self-regulation can be advanced as a central component.
Furthermore, it is suggested that Self-Regulation may act as a switching mechanism that helps decision makers transition between an intuitive process and one that involves synthesis. Currently the Army teaches a highly analytic tool that seems to contradict how officers actually think. This approach will differ from MCPL as techniques such as feedforward will not be effective in environments in which a clear right or wrong answer does not exist.