In the absence of explicit punitive sanctions, why do individuals voluntarily participate in intergroup warfare when doing so incurs a mortality risk? Here we consider the motivation of individuals for participating in warfare. We hypothesize that in addition to other considerations, individuals are incentivized by the possibility of rewards. We test a prediction of this "cultural rewards war-r...

he Warfare Analysis Laboratory Exercise (WALEX) process is a methodology that has evolved over many years for conducting open seminar war games in the Warfare Analysis Laboratory. Developed to analyze problems in naval and Joint warfare, the WALEX process has proven to be a highly adaptive and flexible approach to addressing a variety of complex, collaborative efforts, especially Joint warfare....

The hypothesis that population pressure causes increased warfare has been recently criticized on the empirical grounds. Both studies focusing on specific historical societies and analyses of cross-cultural data fail to find positive correlation between population density and incidence of warfare. In this paper we argue that such negative results do not falsify the population-warfare hypothesis....

To better understand the US military's global peacekeeping and combat operations, which may expose a growing population of American service women to challenging occupations and environments. Concordance between self-reported and electronic occupation codes for female participants in the Millennium Cohort was measured using kappa statistics. Multivariable logistic regression modeling was used to...

TITLE: Information Engineering: The Foundation of Information Warfare. If information is governed by physical laws, information engineering may be possible. If information engineering is possible, it forms the basis for developing information weapons. Thus information engineering is the foundation of information warfare.. This paper establishes the theoretical linkage between the potentially ne...

Radar systems have come a long way since their introduction in the 1940’s, today encompassing a broad range of applications, ranging from supermarket door openers to highly complex shipboard phased-array fire-control radars. Modern systems require higher performance to work in today’s ever more complex Electronic Warfare (EW) environments, which include jamming and deception. As a result, EW sy...

Multisensor data fusion is very important in defence systems. Data fusion can be used to integrate individual sensor data into the common operational picture of the battlefield. However, there is still a possibility to improve the quality of individual sensors. In this paper, we investigate a possibility to improve the quality of individual sensor data from Electronic Warfare (EW) systems. Some...

In this paper, we model the method in which aircraft survivability equipment suites successfully choose their countermeasures, and experiment with their autonomous decision-making against threats in various electronic warfare settings. We have designed and implemented our simulators to estimate the operational effectiveness of the aircraft survivability equipment suite. We formulate the operati...

Nuclear, biological and chemical warfare have in recent times been responsible for an increasing number of otherwise rare dermatoses. Many nations are now maintaining overt and clandestine stockpiles of such arsenal. With increasing terrorist threats, these agents of mass destruction pose a risk to the civilian population. Nuclear and chemical attacks manifest immediately while biological attac...