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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: IS "VUCA" A USEFUL TERM OR IS IT ALL "VUCA'ED" UP?
Description: To treat our own time period as though it is somehow exceptional feels intellectually and morally wrong.
Do we need a new lexicon or do we already have the right words that we are misapplying?
For a quarter century, a popular term to describe the modern strategic environment has been "VUCA," an acronym meaning "Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous." Coined at the U.S. Army War College in the immediate post-Cold War time, VUCA has been used (and overused) to describe anything not simple at the strategic level. But as Paul Kan, Jacqueline E. Whitt, and Andrew A. Hill discuss...