Land Warfare and Complexity, Part II: An Assessment of the Applicability of Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Systems Theory to the Study of Land Warfare (U)

Irreducible Semi-Autonomous Adaptive Combat (ISAAC): An Arti ̄cial-Life Approach to Land Combat

This paper introduces a simple multiagent-based \toy model" of land combat called ISAAC (Irreducible Semi-Autonomous Adaptive Combat) to illustrate how certain aspects of land combat can be viewed as emergent phenomena resulting from the collective, nonlinear, decentralized interactions among notional combatants. ISAAC takes a bottom-up, synthesist approach to the modeling of combat, vice the m...

WISDOM-II: A Network Centric Model for Warfare

With recognition of warfare as a complex adaptive system, a number of AgentBased Distillation Systems (ABDs) for warfare have been developed and adopted to study the dynamics of warfare and gain insight into military operations. These systems have facilitated the analysis and understanding of combat. However, these systems are unable to meet the new needs of defence, arising from current practi...

Land Warfare and Complexity, Part I: Mathematical Backgorund and Technical Sourcebook (U)

Land Warfare Studies Centre Communications Electronic Warfare and the Digitised Battlefield about the Authors Abbreviations and Acronyms

Modern land commanders are increasingly dependent on information-age systems comprising communications and information systems, networks and sensors. While these systems have the potential to produce significant changes in the conduct and character of war, their reliance on the electromagnetic spectrum also has the potential to increase their vulnerability to interdiction by electronic-warfare ...

The Paradox of Intervening in Complex Adaptive Systems; Comment on “Using Complexity and Network Concepts to Inform Healthcare Knowledge Translation”

This commentary addresses two points raised by Kitson and colleagues’ article. First, increasing interest in applying the Complexity Theory lens in healthcare needs further systematic work to create some commonality between concepts used. Second, our need to adopt a better understanding of how these systems organise so we can change the systems overall behaviour, creates a paradox. We seek to m...