The Red Team Handbook: The Army's Guide to Making Better Decisions - Version 9.0, Applied Critical Thinking (ACT), Groupthink Mitigation, 48 Tools, Techniques, and Practices Thoroughly Described

This report, issued in September 2019, has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The U.S. Army chartered the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies (UFMCS) with the mission to teach Red Teaming to the U.S. Army and other authorized organizations. As the nature of warfare has evolved, so too has our curriculum and academic offerings. Version 9.0 of the Red Team Handbook represents the current state of our program. Although the contents of this volume and our courses are not official doctrine, the practices discussed directly support and are in both Joint and U.S. Army Doctrine. This handbook provides the reader with an introduction to the fundamental concepts, methods, and tools essential to the practice of U.S. Army Red Teaming.

Applied Critical Thinking (ACT), provides an improved understanding of our own decision-making processes, as well as the ability to deconstruct arguments and better understand others. It helps identify assumptions, biases, and can allow us to restate ideas using an analogy to describe complex ideas more simply. Perhaps most importantly, it allows us to generate and evaluate alternatives, thereby increasing our chances of finding the path to success. ACT incorporates several fundamentals, including slowing down, asking why, seeking alternatives, and other more-advanced strategies.

This compilation includes a reproduction of the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Chapter 1 - Introduction * Why Do We Red Team? * What is Red Teaming? * Four Principles of UFMCS * UFMCS Training * Chapter 2 - Self-Awareness And Reflection * Self-Authorship * Temperament * Emotional Intelligence * Interpersonal Communication * Interpersonal Conflict * Introspection * Chapter 3 - Fostering Cultural Empathy * Understanding Culture for the Red Teamer * Ethnocentrism * Some Cultural Definitions * Some Cultural Frameworks * Cultural Analysis For The Red Teamer * Functional Systems Approach * Cultural Relevance * Chapter 4 - Applied Critical Thinking * What is Applied Critical Thinking? * The Time Factor * Time For Red Teaming * Creating Space And Time * Summary * Chapter 5 - Groupthink Mitigation And Decision Support * Group Dynamics And Groupthink * Groupthink Mitigation * Decision Support * Chapter 6 - Thinking Creatively * The Creative Thought Process * Stage 1: Problem-Finding * Stage 2: Preparation * Stage 3: Ideation * Stage 4: Idea Verification * Stage 5: Communication * Summary * Chapter 7 - Red Teaming Tools, Techniques, & Practices * Tools * A Technique: The Ideal Group Process * Practices * 1-2-4-Whole Group * 1 on 1, 2 on 2, Exchange Emissaries * 4 Ways of Seeing * 5 Whys * 5 Will Get You 25 * 6 Empathetic Questions * 6 Words * Alternative Futures Analysis * Analogy Suitability Analysis * Analysis Of Competing Hypotheses * Appreciative Interview * Argument Deconstruction * Assumption Sensitivity Analysis * Batna * Brainstorming * Circle Of Voices * Circular Response * Critical Variables * Cultural Perception Framework * Deception Detection * Devil's Advocacy * Divergence - Convergence * Dot Voting * Fishbowl * Frame Audit * Gallery Walk * High Impact / Low Probability Analysis * Indicators Or Signposts Of Change * Key Assumptions Check * Mind Mapping * My 15% * Onion Model * Outside-In Thinking * Premortem Analysis * Problem Restatement * Shifting the Burden * Stakeholder Mapping. * State-Elaborate-Exemplify-Illustrate (SEE-I) * Storytelling * String of Pearls * S-W-O-T Analysis * Team A / Team B Analysis * Think-Write-Share * TRIZ * Troika Consulting (Ad Agency) * What If Analysis * Who Am I? * Yes, And

This handbook is an unclassified living document and regularly evolves to incorporate new ideas, approaches, and tools. It should provide a compendium of ideas from UFMCS curriculum and serve as both a reference for our graduates and a broad introduction to others.