The Impact of the Organisational Mind-set on the Perception of the Future in the Armed Forces

Bence Nemeth; Nicholas Dew; Mie Augier

The Impact of the Organisational Mind-set on the Perception of the Future in the Armed Forces

Bence Nemeth, Nicholas Dew, Mie Augier

Defence Studies

Naval Postgraduate School

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Abstract

Armed forces have always been attempting to foresee threats and security challenges to figure out what kind of tasks they will likely encounter in the future. Thus, anticipating the future and having an idea about what might come helps to provide assumptions and starting points for strategic documents, defence plans and military exercises. Although thinking about the future might happen in different ways, the most common practice to do this in the armed forces is via intelligence methods, and armed forces are less keen or willing to use other methods, e.g. foresight. When they do, their intelligence-focused institutional mind-set does not necessarily allow the members of the organisation to ‘escape’ from intelligence routines and these other methods may become ‘intelligencized’.

Original language	English
Media of output	Blog
Place of Publication	Defence in Depth
Publication status	Published - 23 Jul 2018

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