While not a cure-all, innovative use can help to achieve better performance with lower risk of casualties. Common requirements The first and perhaps most important OMO technology requirement is for systems that minimize casualties. These can be defined in three broad categories. First are systems that create time and space. Those involved in OMO need time to keep situations from escalating and to develop alternative courses of action.
Space is a visible or invisible barrier that separates antagonists or protects one's own forces.
Next are technologies that control levels of violence. These include methods for individual and crowd control, ways to separate belligerents from other belligerents and from non-combatants, and ways to monitor the separation. Other supporting technology includes systems that can find and neutralize snipers, concealed weapons and so on. Finally, technologies that can help fill the gap between inaction and the use of deadly force have the potential both to enhance the chances for mission success and reduce casualties on all sides. First, the concept of NLW is misunderstood and has created expectations both in the media and the public that cannot be met.