Nonlinear Science And Warfare

Author : Sean T. Lawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135020187

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Nonlinear Science and Warfare by Sean T. Lawson Pdf

This book examines the United States military’s use of concepts from non-linear science, such as chaos and complexity theory, in its efforts to theorise information-age warfare. Over the past three decades, the US defence community has shown an increasing interest in learning lessons from the non-linear sciences. Theories, strategies, and doctrines of warfare that have guided the conduct of US forces in recent conflicts have been substantially influenced by ideas borrowed from non-linear science, including manoeuvre warfare, network-centric warfare, and counterinsurgency. This book accounts for the uses that the US military has made of non-linear science by examining the long-standing historical relationship between the natural sciences and Western militaries. It identifies concepts and metaphors borrowed from natural science as a key formative factor behind the development of military theory, strategy, and doctrine. In doing so, Nonlinear Science and Warfare not only improves our understanding of the relationship between military professional identity, professional military education, and changes in technology, but also provides important insights into the evolving nature of conflict in the Information Age. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, military science, US foreign policy, technology and war, and security studies.

Author : Sean T. Lawson
Publisher : ProQuest
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0549983244

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[email protected]: Nonlinear Science and the Emergence of Information Age Warfare in the United States Military by Sean T. Lawson Pdf

Author : G. Nicolis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521467829

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Introduction to Nonlinear Science by G. Nicolis Pdf

The aim of this book is to develop a unified approach to nonlinear science, which does justice to its multiple facets and to the diversity and richness of the concepts and tools developed in this field over the years. Nonlinear science emerged in its present form following a series of closely related and decisive analytic, numerical and experimental developments that took place over the past three decades. It appeals to an extremely large variety of subject areas, but, at the same time, introduces into science a new way of thinking based on a subtle interplay between qualitative and quantitative techniques, topological and metric considerations and deterministic and statistical views. Special effort has been made throughout the book to illustrate both the development of the subject and the mathematical techniques, by reference to simple models. Each chapter concludes with a set of problems. This book will be of great value to graduate students in physics, applied mathematics, chemistry, engineering and biology taking courses in nonlinear science and its applications.

Author : Antoine J. Bousquet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197655931

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The Scientific Way of Warfare by Antoine J. Bousquet Pdf

Bousquet's landmark book examines the impact of key technologies and scientific ideas on the theory and practice of warfare and the handling of the perennial tension between order and chaos on the battlefield. Spanning the entire modern era, from the Scientific Revolution to the present, it offers a systematic account of modern warfare as the constitution of increasingly complex assemblages of bodies and machines whose integration rests upon a military assimilation of scientific thought. Reflecting the pervasive influence of scientific conceptual frameworks upon warfare, modern armies have been successively organised by reference to the paradigmatic technologies of the clock, engine, computer, and network. Conversely, major scientific developments and technological breakthroughs have become intertwined with the experience of war, especially since the Second World War's unprecedented mobilisation of scientific rationality and technical expertise. This increasingly tight symbiosis between science, technology, and war is at the heart of both the tremendous powers and enduring pathologies displayed by the contemporary military machine. In this new and revised edition, Bousquet extends the analysis to encompass the latest developments in the scientific way of warfare in the midst of renewed great power competition and a wave of technological innovation in artificial intelligence and robotics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428980129

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Clausewitzian Friction and Future War by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barry D. Watts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210388216

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Clausewitzian Friction and Future War by Barry D. Watts Pdf

Author : David Lai
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030922009

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U.S.-China Strategic Relations and Competitive Sports by David Lai Pdf

This book investigates cultural influences of competitive sports on U.S. and Chinese strategic thinking and tactical behavior. Most competitive sports owe their origins to human fighting. Although they are “ritualized contests,” competitive sports have retained many aspects of human warfare, especially the use of strategy and tactics that moves human contest beyond military clashes to the subjugation of opponents without bloodshed. Cultural influences usually go unnoticed. Indeed, Washington often conducts foreign affairs like football games without knowing that is the case. Likewise, Beijing moves in Weiqi style subconsciously. This book uncovers these influences.

Author : Andrew Ilachinski
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789812388346

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Artificial War by Andrew Ilachinski Pdf

Military conflicts, particularly land combat, possess the characteristics of complex adaptive systems: combat forces are composed of a large number of nonlinearly interacting parts and are organized in a dynamic command-and-control network; local action, which often appears disordered, self-organizes into long-range order; military conflicts, by their nature, proceed far from equilibrium; military forces adapt to a changing combat environment; and there is no master ?voice? that dictates the actions of every soldier (i.e., battlefield action is decentralized). Nonetheless, most modern ?state of the art? military simulations ignore the self-organizing properties of combat.This book summarizes the results of a multiyear research effort aimed at exploring the applicability of complex adaptive systems theory to the study of warfare, and introduces a sophisticated multiagent-based simulation of combat called EINSTein. EINSTein, whose bottom-up, generative approach to modeling combat stands in stark contrast to the top-down or reductionist philosophy that still underlies most conventional military models, is designed to illustrate how many aspects of land combat may be understood as self-organized, emergent phenomena. Used worldwide by the military operations research community, EINSTein has pioneered the simulation of combat on a small to medium scale by using autonomous agents to model individual behaviors and personalities rather than hardware.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:946678802

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Land Warfare and Complexity, Part II: An Assessment of the Applicability of Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Systems Theory to the Study of Land Warfare by Anonim Pdf

The Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC) asked the Center for Naval Analyses to assess the general applicability of the new science to land warfare. "New Sciences" is a catch-all phrase that refers to the tools and methodologies used in nonlinear dynamics and complex systems theory to study physical dynamical systems exhibiting a "complicated dynamics." This report concludes that the concepts, ideas, theories, tools and general methodologies of nonlinear dynamics and complex systems theory show enormous, almost unlimited, potential for not just providing better solutions for certain existing problems of land combat, but for fundamentally altering our general understanding of the basic processes of war, at all levels. Indeed, the new sciences' greatest legacy may, in the end, prove to be not just a set of creative answers to old questions but and entirely new set of questions to be asked of what really happens on the battlefield The central thesis of this paper is that land combat is a complex adaptive system. That is to say, that land combat is essentially a nonlinear dynamical system composed of many interacting semi-autonomous and hierarchically organized agents continuously adapting to a changing environment.

Author : Marouf Hasian, Jr.,Sean Lawson,Megan D. McFarlane
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498505093

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The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State by Marouf Hasian, Jr.,Sean Lawson,Megan D. McFarlane Pdf

The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State uses a broad range of materials, including technical, journalistic, entertainment, academic, and legal sources to explore the role of rhetoric in the expansion and maintenance of America’s national security state. It helps audiences understand the complex discourses produced by and constitutive of the national security state. Its interdisciplinary approach will resonate with scholars working in a number of different fields, including rhetoric, critical security studies, and science and technology studies.

Author : Jack S. Levy,John A. Vasquez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107042452

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The Outbreak of the First World War by Jack S. Levy,John A. Vasquez Pdf

This volume brings together leading historians and international relations scholars to debate the causes of the First World War.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : IND:30000160162115

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Military Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : PURD:32754084036593

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Professional Journal of the United States Army by Anonim Pdf

Author : Abbass, Hussein A.,Essam, Daryl
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781591406433

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Applications of Information Systems to Homeland Security and Defense by Abbass, Hussein A.,Essam, Daryl Pdf

"This book provides an overview of complex systems' techniques and presents both guidelines and specific instances of how they can be applied to security and defense applications"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Murray Wolfson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461549611

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The Political Economy of War and Peace by Murray Wolfson Pdf

cancer n. any malignant tumor . . . Metastasis may occur via the bloodstream or the lymphatic channels or across body cavities . . . setting up secondary tumors . . . Each individual primary tumor has its own pattern . . . There are probably many causative factors . . . Treatment. . . depends on the type of tumor, the site of the primary tumor and the extent of the spread. (Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary 1996, 97) Let us begin by stating the obvious. Acts of organized violence are not necessarily of human nature, but they are endogenous events arising within the an intrinsic part evolution of complex systems of social interaction. To be sure, all wars have features in common - people are killed and property is destroyed - but in their origin wars are likely to be at least as different as the social structures from which they arise. Consequently, it is unlikely that there can be a simple theory of the causes of war or the maintenance of peace. The fact that wars are historical events need not discourage us. On the contrary, we should focus our understanding of the dimensions of each conflict, or classes of conflict, on the conjuncture of causes at hand. It follows that the study of conflict must be an interdisciplinary one. It is or a penchant for eclecticism that leads to that conclusion, but the not humility multi-dimensionality of war itself.