Artificial War
Author | : Andrew Ilachinski |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 962 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : 9812562400 |
ISBN-13 | : 9789812562401 |
Rating | : 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Download or read book Artificial War written by Andrew Ilachinski and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military conflicts, particularly land combat, possess thecharacteristics of complex adaptive systems: combat forces arecomposed of a large number of nonlinearly interacting parts and areorganized in a dynamic command-and-control network; local action, which often appears disordered, self-organizes into long-range order;military conflicts, by their nature, proceed far from equilibrium;military forces adapt to a changing combat environment; and there isno master voice that dictates the actions of every soldier (i