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The V-22 Osprey nacelle improvement program represents far more than a maintenance initiative for aging aircraft. It serves as a revealing case study in how military forces must fundamentally reconceive readiness itself as they transition from episodic crisis management to persistent chaos management. This three-part series which this article presages uses the nacelle challenge to illuminate broader tensions facing modern militaries: How to sustain legacy platforms while transforming for future conflicts, How to maintain distributed network capabilities rather than measuring individual platform metrics, And how to achieve readiness not against static standards but at the speed of operational relevance. The first article establishes the theoretical foundation by examining how distributed operations concepts fundamentally alter the calculus of readiness. In kill web architectures rather than kill chains, military effectiveness...