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The Human Dimension
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The strategic landscape and emerging threats facing the United States of America are vast and complex. Such threats range from traditional large scale armies with conventional tactics to non-state actors who utilize guerilla means. Social political factors, ambiguity, and regional instability are a few of the multi-faceted factors that compound today’s war zones. Soldiers must be able to understand the complexity of the foreign environment while maintaining security and promoting governance. U.S. Army leaders must maintain situational awareness and adapt to the complexity of the operational environment through the human dimension concept.
Faced with a complex future operational enviorment, changing fiscal realities, and continuous engagement as part of unified land operations, the Army will require enhanced capabilities in the cognitive, physical, and social components of the human dimension. These capabilities are necessary for the future Army to win the clash of wills, become more expeditionary while retaining capability, and maintain overmatch over adversaries.
The Army recognizes that the American Soldier remains the most discriminately lethal force on the battlefield. In light of the future operational challenges, the Army must invest significantly in the human dimension. This investment requires a unifying, holistic vision: maximized individual and team performance through identification, development, and optimal integration of human capabilities.
The human dimension concept has three key tenets: physical supremacy, decisive cognitive edge, and cultural understanding over potential adversaries.
For the latest information, see the below video on the human dimension concept panel at a recent professional conference by Lieutenant General Robert Brown, commander of the combined arms center. At 31 minutes into the video, Dr. Michelle Sams (Director, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences) gives a thorough explanation of how the Army is advancing learning to a smarter and more personal approach to the soldier. This systems approach to the human dimension concept will improve unit readiness in the future
To test your knowledge on the human dimension, please take the five question quiz below. The answers can be found on this page.
Created by Michael McCarthy
Last Updated: 21 June, 2105