The Operational Imperative That Almost Wasn’t
BLUF – The article argues that the Pentagon’s new Warfighter Performance Optimization initiative builds on more than a decade of work by U.S. Special Operations Command’s Preservation of the Force and Family (POTFF) program and the Army’s Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) model, moving human performance, cognitive readiness, and brain health from isolated programs to enterprise-level readiness requirements with standardized metrics and accountability. For Navy Medicine, the key takeaway is that military healthcare is increasingly expected to support force readiness beyond traditional clinical care by embedding expertise in human performance, cognitive optimization, injury prevention, nutrition, and data-driven readiness programs directly alongside operational units.
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