Infrastructure failure is inevitable. National defense missions rely upon infrastructure — such as water, electricity, communications, and logistics — and those systems are guaranteed to fail under sufficient stress. Hazards range from weather, cyber attack, equipment faults, assault, disinformation, and curious animals.
When infrastructure fails, mission systems and personnel will scramble to adapt — especially during critical activities, such as a mobility surge. At the same time, infrastructure operators will rush to recover their systems. These periods of disruption are characterized by surprise — surprise in the disruption itself, surprise in second- and third-order effects, surprise in emergent requirements, andThe post Chaos Engineering for National Defense: Embracing Infrastructure Complexity for Mission Assurance appeared first on War on the Rocks.