"Here at Best Defense we've never really gotten into VUCA, an acronym apparently developed at the Army War College to describe the "Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous" environment that many think we will face in coming decades. It actually brought to mind a woman I dated in my senior year of college for a few crazy weeks. It was a learning experience, OK?
"But I think the acronym-makers missed a chance here. If they added "Lethal" in the middle and "Novel" at the end, then we could face a "VULCAN" challenge."There's something else. In addition to the general mindlessness that produces and uses so many acronyms (then wonders why the Army is so misunderstood), there is the continued abuse of the term "environment." That's what VUCA is all about, the VUCA environment.
For more on the overuse and misuse of the term environment, see any Army doctrinal publication.
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