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How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today's conflicts more effectively The way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers facing rebel insurgencies deploying elusive methods, from improvised explosives to terrorist attacks. Presenting a transformative understanding of these contemporary confrontations, Small Wars, Big Data shows that a revolution in the study of conflict yields new insights into terrorism, civil wars, and foreign interventions. Modern warfare is not about struggles over territory but over people; civilians-and the information they might provide-can turn the tide at critical junctures. Drawing lessons from conflicts in locations around the world, Small Wars, Big Data provides groundbreaking perspectives for how small wars can be better strategized and favorably won.

How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today's conflicts more effectively The way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers facing rebel insurgencies that deploy elusive methods, from improvised explosives to terrorist attacks. Small Wars, Big Data presents a transformative understanding of these contemporary confrontations and how they should be fought. The authors show that a revolution in the study of conflict--enabled by vast data, rich qualitative evidence, and modern methods-yields new insights into terrorism, civil wars, and foreign interventions. Modern warfare is not about struggles over territory but over people; civilians-and the information they might choose to provide-can turn the tide at critical junctures. The authors draw practical lessons from the past two decades of conflict in locations ranging from Latin America and the Middle East to Central and Southeast Asia. Building an information-centric understanding of insurgencies, the authors examine the relationships between rebels, the government, and civilians. This approach serves as a springboard for exploring other aspects of modern conflict, including the suppression of rebel activity, the role of mobile communications networks, the links between aid and violence, and why conventional military methods might provide short-term success but undermine lasting peace. Ultimately the authors show how the stronger side can almost always win the villages, but why that does not guarantee winning the war. Small Wars, Big Data provides groundbreaking perspectives for how small wars can be better strategized and favorably won to the benefit of the local population.

Margarethe, the proud, impetuous daughter of a nobleman in Germany, wants no part in her father's plans to marry her off to Count von Schonstein's son, Eric, so that the two nobles can join forces against the "upstart" burghers. She would much rather stay at home with her beloved younger sister, Else, but Else will soon be leaving to spend the rest of her life in a convent. Unlike her gentle, pious sister, Margarethe is certain that God's only desire is to make her life miserable, especially now that she refuses to participate in the rites and ceremonies of the Church. When her brother, Fritz, brings her an "indulgence" from far-off J terbog, she doubts that even this can make her acceptable to an angry God. Then from her great-aunt, Margarethe hears of another religion, one almost forgotten, that taught that God loves the world, and she longs to know if this message is true. As the controversy surrounding the teachings of Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwinglius intensifies, she and her dear friend, Anna, along with Fritz and Eric, must decide what part they might play in the emerging Reformation.

Diese Arbeit entstand wiihrend meiner Tatigkeit als wissenschaftIicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl fur Informatik und Operation Research der Universitat Passau im Rahmen eines langfristigen Forschungsprojektes zur Realisierung leistungsfahiger Entscheidungsunterstiitzender Systeme ftir komplexe Anwendungen (wie z.B. das Scheduling von Projekten). Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Konzep tion eines Verwaltungssystemes, mit dem die in einem Rechnersystem verftigbare Software problem- und anwenderspezifisch zu effizient arbeitenden Entschei dungsunterstiitzenden Systemen zusammengestellt werden kann. Auf einer SUN-Workstation wurden verschiedene Moglichkeiten zur Implemen tie rung eines derartigen Verwaltungssystemes untersucht. 1m einzelnen wurden eine Realisierung tiber PROLOG, eine Realisierung tiber trickreiche PASCAL Pointerstrukturen und eine Realsierung tiber die relationale Datenbank INGRES betrachtet. Der Datenbank-Ansatz, bei dem die Datenbank mit Hilfe der Datenbank-Anfragesprache QUEL aus C-Programmen heraus gesteuert wurde, erwies sich dabei den anderen Ansatzen gegentiber sowohl von der Performance als auch yom Programmieraufwand her als tiberlegen. Zur Zeit wird nach den in dieser Arbeit entwickelten Konzepten ein Verwaltungs system fur ein Entscheidungsuntersttitzendes System im Bereich der Projekt planung aufgebaut. Dabei sind Standard-Software und an verschiedenen Universitaten entwickelte Spezial-Software zu einem leistungsfahigen Gesamt system zu integrieren. Ftir die langfristige Forderung dieser Arbeit und seine zahlreichen Anregungen und Verbesserungsvorschlagen gilt mein besonderer Dank Herrn Professor Dr."