The publications collected here emerged from operational experience, instruction, evaluation, and ongoing research into human performance, remote warfare, supervisory control, and autonomy. Some works are complete. Others remain active lines of development.
Books that establish the operational ground the research program stands on. Additional volumes will be added as they are completed.
A first-person account of life inside the MQ-9 enterprise, the operational experience from which the questions about attention, supervision, decision-making, and the human cost of remote warfare first surfaced. The book is the origin point for the broader research program presented across this site.
View publication ↗Essays and commentary developing specific lines of the research program. Pieces appear here with a status reflecting current state of work; titles, venues, and links are added once material is actually completed and published.
Framing remote warfare crews as a distinct operational exposure population whose realities are not yet well captured by existing veteran health and readiness frameworks.
On the quiet failure mode beneath many human–autonomy problems: the operator's internal representation of the system and the world drifting out of alignment with what is actually true.
A practitioner-facing piece on how attention narrows, fragments, and reallocates under sustained operational workload, and what that means for supervision of complex systems.
Distance does not eliminate the human in the loop; it relocates the human factor into new and less visible parts of the system.
On the gap between formal ORM artifacts and the actual decisions crews make under time pressure, ambiguity, and accumulated fatigue.
A consolidated treatment of the operator, crew, and institution as a single human system whose performance characteristics shape the outcome of remote operations.
The home for shorter practitioner-focused writing: operational observations, evaluator notes, and article-length thought pieces that do not fit into formal essays or white papers. Field notes are intentionally brief and remain anchored to the research areas they support.
A short field note on the unwritten part of every handoff: the intent, the suspicion, the shape of the picture that the log never captures.
An evaluator's note on the difference between a student supervising the aircraft and a student merely watching it.
Short commentary on the sensor operator who holds the clearest read of a developing situation and the institutional weight required to let that read carry.
A practitioner reflection on the no-decompression transition from the Ground Control Station to ordinary life, and what it asks of a remote warfare career.
Working frameworks intended for use by instructors, evaluators, program offices, and human–autonomy teaming efforts. This section is designed to grow as formal papers are completed.
A four-dimension framework for evaluating how well an operator supervises an autonomous or semi-autonomous system, intended for instructor, evaluator, and program use.
A working taxonomy of irreversibility for remote operations and supervisory control, and what an autonomy stack owes the human before an unrecoverable action.
A practitioner-facing treatment of the cognitive and temporal cost of rebuilding a usable mission picture after every handoff, interruption, and shift change.
A working model for describing combat exposure in remote operations across dimensions that traditional exposure frameworks were not built to capture.
Selected interviews and contributions to public reporting on remote warfare, autonomy, and the human side of distributed operations.
The operational realities of remote warfare crews.
Contribution to reporting on the human side of remote operations.
Read coverage ↗Veteran experience and the human factor in remote operations.
Contribution to reporting on remote warfare and veteran experience.
Read coverage ↗Autonomy, supervisory control, and human–autonomy teaming.
Engagement with the AFCEA community on supervisory control and human–autonomy teaming.
Read coverage ↗Each research area on the Research page is also an active publication stream. The entries below are not completed works. They are the ongoing lines from which the books, essays, white papers, and interviews above are drawn.
The umbrella line: the operational, cognitive, and psychological demands of conducting warfare from a Ground Control Station across months and years. Drafting long-form work and gathering practitioner accounts through Remote Warrior.
The cost an operator pays each time attention is broken (by a handoff, interruption, or shift change) and the work of rebuilding a usable mental model before the next decision.
A framework for evaluating how well an operator supervises an autonomous or semi-autonomous system across representation, prediction, prioritization, and intervention.
How, when, and under what conditions decision authority moves toward whoever holds the highest-fidelity understanding of the situation in distributed remote operations.
Practical heuristics for prioritizing attention and intervention around actions that cannot be undone, and for training crews and autonomous systems to treat irreversibility as a first-class constraint.
Every entry on this page connects back to a single operational question: how humans maintain effective supervision, understanding, and decision-making in remote and increasingly autonomous systems.
The publications, frameworks, and media work collected here serve as the evidence layer supporting the broader research program. Each piece points back to a research area, a project, or Remote Warrior.
Future articles, interviews, books, podcasts, and white papers will extend this index over time. Status reflects current state; titles and venues appear here only when material is actually completed.
