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Beyond the Clock

Understanding Cross-Cultural Temporal Orientation of Military Officers

This interdisciplinary project proposes using quantitative, qualitative, and arts-based methods to theorize how temporal orientation impacts strategic culture and how the perceived significance of future time and intertemporal choice shapes strategic thinking among diverse international military officers. The project will focus on two areas of strategy—strategic culture and strategic thinking.

Core objectives

Methodological Approach

Mixed-Methods & Arts-Based Research:​​

Participants

• Military Officers: International cohorts from Strategic Leadership Course, US and international military leaders participating in Joint Forces Staff College  training program, and US and allied officers at NATO ACT.

• Control Group: International graduate students at Old Dominion University.

Expected Outcomes

  • This interdisciplinary method could provide a new model for studying other abstract cultural constructs, such as gender or gratitude, thereby broadening the methodological toolkit available to social scientists.

  • The integration of arts-based approaches may offer new insights into unconscious, non-verbal aspects, including implicit bias, of culture that are often challenging to capture with traditional research methods.

  • Optimize military training materials for strategic analysis and strategic planning 

  • A phenomenological framework for understanding variations in enculturated, modulated, and neurorelative schemas of time can enhance strategic thinking. 

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