Continuous Learning and Adapting

  • Published
  • By USSOCOM J7

The current strategic and operational environment requires SOF professionals and organizations to use processes and institutions to discover, analyze, disseminate, apply, and assess relevant lessons continuously to evolve and change SOF tactics, operations, and organization to be most effective in competition, crisis, and conflict. By intentionally cultivating a culture of continual learning, SOF better capture key insights from disparate missions and changing adversary tasks. In this regard, better understanding of the following is needed: What are the current knowledge gaps? How does USSOCOM foster a culture that allows senior leaders to have both the opportunity and time to learn and evolve? Does the enterprise require new and/or specialized methods, facilities, educators, and/or better processes to better learn and adapt? What is the role of information and data management in continuous learning and adapting at every echelon? How does SOF optimize the enterprise—from individual through element through subordinate commands through HQ USSOCOM—to adapt more efficiently and effectively?