MANAGING CONFLICT TRAINING--OLDER AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN

Not Available Since the Cold War the trend in military operations has increasingly moved toward Operations Other Than War (OOTW). However, military doctrine, practice and training have focused primarily on traditional combat operations, which differ fundamentally from OOTW. One requirement for training the Air Force with skills necessary for successful operation in OOTW environments is to understand the breath of OOTW requirements and how they differ from war-fighting situations. In the history of military operations, the frequency of OOTWs has been substantially lower than that of combat operations, making every OOTW a significant and critical data point. The goal of the proposed effort is help the U.S. Air Force understand and meet the unique training needs that OOTW impose. The opportunity with this proposal is to take advantage of three recent developments what will impact Air Force training for OOTW: 1) the emergence of the Naturalistic Decision Making framework using Cognitive Task Analysis to understand how people make decisions; 2) the work of Miller and Zsambok (1997) defining the unique cognitive demands of Commanders of OOTW; and 3) the development of a new approach to training skills in decision making called Decision Skills Training (DST).