APPLIED ANALYSIS OF UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE

Abstract

U.S. participation in situations of unconventional warfare requires the ability to work through the indigenous population involved. This in turn necessitates an understanding of how the given society functions. The paper presents a method for describing a society as it presently functions and also for projecting this description into a future time period, using the patterns of change that the society has manifested in the past. The methodology thus described was employed in the NOTS Unconventional Warfare Studies Project where it was applied to the situations in both Vietnam and Venezuela.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0603098

Entities

People

  • David K. Pack
  • John L. Sorenson

Organizations

  • Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Construction
  • Economics
  • Foreign Aid
  • Governments
  • Human Behavior
  • Literature
  • Materials
  • Military Operations
  • Personality
  • Political Science
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Unconventional Warfare
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design