IRREGULAR WARFARE IN AFRICAN CONFLICTS

Third-degree conflicts: information warfare

European Journal of Information Systems (2010) 19, 1–4. doi:10.1057/ejis.2010.2 The concept of the Internet as a potential military battlefield is not particularly new. The Internet itself is rooted to the military notion of a bomb-proof defense network. Similarly, the feasibility of attacking information systems across this network was proven in the 1980s by the Morris Worm. This Internet worm...

Intrafamily and intragenomic conflicts in human warfare

Recent years have seen an explosion of multidisciplinary interest in ancient human warfare. Theory has emphasized a key role for kin-selected cooperation, modulated by sex-specific demography, in explaining intergroup violence. However, conflicts of interest remain a relatively underexplored factor in the evolutionary-ecological study of warfare, with little consideration given to which parties...

Command and Control of Airpower in Irregular Warfare

Exterminating the Cyber Flea: Irregular Warfare Lessons for Cyber Defence

Traditional approaches to tactical Computer Network Defence (CND), drawn from the lessons and doctrine of conventional warfare, are based on a team of deployed security professionals countering the adversary’s cyber forces. The concept of the adversary in cyberspace does not fit neatly into the conventional military paradigms. Rather than fighting an identifiable foe, cyber adversaries are clan...

Behavior Selection Using Utility-Based Reinforcement Learning in Irregular Warfare Simulation Models

The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) provides a conceptual model for use in assessing behavioral intentions of humans. Agent based social simulations seek to represent the behavior of individuals in societies in order to understand the impact of a variety of interventions on the population in a given area. Previous work has described the implementation of the TPB in agent based social simulatio...