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This volume develops and describes an ontology of modern conflict.
Modern conflict is a complex adaptive system. As such, it exhibits
emergent properties, or properties that are not predictable from
simple descriptions of the system. The Modern Conflict Ontology
(MCO) creates a structure for collecting and analyzing information
regarding both conventional and unconventional conflict in the face
of uncertainty. The first three chapters of the book begin the
discussion of the MCO. The first chapter introduces the
foundational concepts. The second chapter discusses modern conflict
in detail. The third chapter provides an overview of ontologies in
sufficient detail to make the rest of the book understandable, but
without covering the minutia of the subject. The next ten chapters
describe the parts of the MCO. Each part is a sub-ontology and is
discussed in detail, including connections to the other parts.
Instances are used very liberally to ensure that the concepts are
made concrete. The final chapter consolidates the descriptions of
the ontology into a discussion of "what we can know." It describes
the implementation history and changes from the predecessor
Unconventional Conflict Ontology (UCO) to the MCO, plus some uses
of the ontology and potential future enhancements. Providing an
ontology that describes the entire modern conflict domain, this
volume is appropriate for military professionals and academics and
professionals in political science, computer science, and
operations research.
This volume develops and describes an ontology of modern conflict.
Modern conflict is a complex adaptive system. As such, it exhibits
emergent properties, or properties that are not predictable from
simple descriptions of the system. The Modern Conflict Ontology
(MCO) creates a structure for collecting and analyzing information
regarding both conventional and unconventional conflict in the face
of uncertainty. The first three chapters of the book begin the
discussion of the MCO. The first chapter introduces the
foundational concepts. The second chapter discusses modern conflict
in detail. The third chapter provides an overview of ontologies in
sufficient detail to make the rest of the book understandable, but
without covering the minutia of the subject. The next ten chapters
describe the parts of the MCO. Each part is a sub-ontology and is
discussed in detail, including connections to the other parts.
Instances are used very liberally to ensure that the concepts are
made concrete. The final chapter consolidates the descriptions of
the ontology into a discussion of "what we can know." It describes
the implementation history and changes from the predecessor
Unconventional Conflict Ontology (UCO) to the MCO, plus some uses
of the ontology and potential future enhancements. Providing an
ontology that describes the entire modern conflict domain, this
volume is appropriate for military professionals and academics and
professionals in political science, computer science, and
operations research.
This book describes the ontology structure, types of actors, their
potential actions, and ways that actions can affect the things that
are part of the conflict. An ontology of unconventional conflict
supports the understanding of unconventional conflict in general.
It also provides a tool for understanding and investigating a
particular unconventional conflict. The ontology specifies the
relations among the elements and supports creating a description of
a particular situation. Unconventional conflict spans the range
from natural disasters through human disagreements to irregular
warfare (up to conventional war). Unconventional conflict involves
damage to things and injuries to people; however, the critical
factors are the actions, reactions, and opinions of people,
including political, military, economic, social, infrastructure,
and information components. This ontology supports and will appeal
to military strategists, political scientists, economists, and
politicians in understanding their planning for, and managing of
these conflicts.
This book describes issues in modeling unconventional conflict and
suggests a new way to do the modeling. It presents an ontology that
describes the unconventional conflict domain, which allows for
greater ease in modeling unconventional conflict. Supporting
holistic modeling, which means that we can see the entire picture
of what needs to be modeled, the ontology allows us to make
informed decisions about what to model and what to omit. The
unconventional conflict ontology also separates the things we
understand best from the things we understand least. This
separation means that we can perform verification, validation and
accreditation (VV&A) more efficiently and can describe the
competence of the model more accurately. However, before this
message can be presented in its entirety the supporting body of
knowledge has to be explored. For this reason, the book offers
chapters that focus on the description of unconventional conflict
and the analyses that have been performed, modeling, with a
concentration on past efforts at modeling unconventional conflict,
the precursors to the ontology, and VV&A. Unconventional
conflict is a complex, messy thing. It normally involves multiple
actors, with their own conflicting agendas and differing concepts
of legitimate actions. This book will present a useful introduction
for researchers and professionals within the field.
This book describes the ontology structure, types of actors, their
potential actions, and ways that actions can affect the things that
are part of the conflict. An ontology of unconventional conflict
supports the understanding of unconventional conflict in general.
It also provides a tool for understanding and investigating a
particular unconventional conflict. The ontology specifies the
relations among the elements and supports creating a description of
a particular situation. Unconventional conflict spans the range
from natural disasters through human disagreements to irregular
warfare (up to conventional war). Unconventional conflict involves
damage to things and injuries to people; however, the critical
factors are the actions, reactions, and opinions of people,
including political, military, economic, social, infrastructure,
and information components. This ontology supports and will appeal
to military strategists, political scientists, economists, and
politicians in understanding their planning for, and managing of
these conflicts.
This book describes issues in modeling unconventional conflict and
suggests a new way to do the modeling. It presents an ontology that
describes the unconventional conflict domain, which allows for
greater ease in modeling unconventional conflict. Supporting
holistic modeling, which means that we can see the entire picture
of what needs to be modeled, the ontology allows us to make
informed decisions about what to model and what to omit. The
unconventional conflict ontology also separates the things we
understand best from the things we understand least. This
separation means that we can perform verification, validation and
accreditation (VV&A) more efficiently and can describe the
competence of the model more accurately. However, before this
message can be presented in its entirety the supporting body of
knowledge has to be explored. For this reason, the book offers
chapters that focus on the description of unconventional conflict
and the analyses that have been performed, modeling, with a
concentration on past efforts at modeling unconventional conflict,
the precursors to the ontology, and VV&A. Unconventional
conflict is a complex, messy thing. It normally involves multiple
actors, with their own conflicting agendas and differing concepts
of legitimate actions. This book will present a useful introduction
for researchers and professionals within the field.
In a world of accelerating unending change, perpetual surveillance,
and increasing connectivity, conflict has become ever more complex.
Wars are no longer limited to the traditional military conflict
domains-land, sea, air; even space and cyber space. The new
battlefield will be the cognitive domain and the new conflict a
larger contest for power; a contest for cognitive superiority.
Written by experts in military operations research and
neuropsychology, this book introduces the concept of cognitive
superiority and provides the keys to succeeding within a complex
matrix where the only rules are the laws of physics, access to
information, and the boundaries of cognition. The book describes
the adversarial environment and how it interacts with the ongoing,
accelerating change that we are experiencing, irrespective of
adversaries. It talks about the ascendant power of information
access, pervasive surveillance, personalized persuasion, and
emerging new forms of cognition. It profiles salient technologies
and science, including persuasion science, artificial intelligence
and machine learning (AI/ML), surveillance technologies, complex
adaptive systems, network science, directed human modification, and
biosecurity. Readers will learn about human and machine cognition,
what makes it tick, and why and how we and our technologies are
vulnerable. Following in the tradition of Sun-Tsu and von
Clausewitz, this book writes a new chapter in the study of warfare
and strategy. It is written for those who lead, aspire to
leadership, and those who teach or persuade, especially in the
fields of political science, military science, computer science,
and business.
In a world of accelerating unending change, perpetual surveillance,
and increasing connectivity, conflict has become ever more complex.
Wars are no longer limited to the traditional military conflict
domains-land, sea, air; even space and cyber space. The new
battlefield will be the cognitive domain and the new conflict a
larger contest for power; a contest for cognitive superiority.
Written by experts in military operations research and
neuropsychology, this book introduces the concept of cognitive
superiority and provides the keys to succeeding within a complex
matrix where the only rules are the laws of physics, access to
information, and the boundaries of cognition. The book describes
the adversarial environment and how it interacts with the ongoing,
accelerating change that we are experiencing, irrespective of
adversaries. It talks about the ascendant power of information
access, pervasive surveillance, personalized persuasion, and
emerging new forms of cognition. It profiles salient technologies
and science, including persuasion science, artificial intelligence
and machine learning (AI/ML), surveillance technologies, complex
adaptive systems, network science, directed human modification, and
biosecurity. Readers will learn about human and machine cognition,
what makes it tick, and why and how we and our technologies are
vulnerable. Following in the tradition of Sun-Tsu and von
Clausewitz, this book writes a new chapter in the study of warfare
and strategy. It is written for those who lead, aspire to
leadership, and those who teach or persuade, especially in the
fields of political science, military science, computer science,
and business.
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